Always Willing to Oblige. It was a Texas town, and a long- limbed Texan was making across the public square toward the courthouse with a revolver in his hand when he was stopped by a man, who asked: “Are you on your way to the court house?” ” “Yes sir; I am,” was the reply. “Going to shoot anybody? “Yes, sir—ILawyer Johnson. If lost my case yesterday. mg to fill him full of lead.” “Are you in any great hurry about it?" “No special hurry, but when I have shooting on hand 1 like to get if off my minds as soon as possible.” “Of course, but you see, Lawyer Johnson is now arguing a case for me and won't be through forty min- utes. He's going to win it for sure if not interrupted, and if you will only hold on for awhile you will do me a great favor.” “Why, certainly—glad you mentioned it. No hurry about the shooting, as it comes off to-day, and you can count an me. Have a drink with you? With the greatest of and if John SON 1s a partic of yours I'll shoot him can and give him every like a gentle- man.” for 50) pleasure, friend as | die as show Netter Late Than Never. sir, as the man } your daughter about a “You may recall me, who ecloped with year ago.’ “Well, sir, “l may be a come to offer ALARMING MORTALITY Noticeable Among the Weak and Ailing. what can I do for you?" iy, but I have little bit tardy, vou my congratulations, Spring the Time Death Reaps Its Largest Harvest There Is a Way of Eiuding the Grim Destroyer. Every Spring it is noticeabl mauy people are taken away have been accustomed daily life. Statistics show that at no other sea- son of the year does s0 many deaths occur. Especially large is the mértality among weak and sickly people. The reason for this is apparent. The body that is weakened by age or dis- ease has much to contend with during the Winter months. Insufficient exer- cise frequently has been taken. Too much starchy and fatty foods have been eaten. The system has been allowed to become run down, and when Spring comes with its bright, sunshiny days, older people will begin to realize that their vitality has become very low. The same thing is true of people who are naturally sickly and weak. This is the season of the year when even a strong son feels at his worst. That tired, restiess feeling is experienced by too many. There need not be as many deaths this year as usuall ¥ i A lit- tle care will ward off many Spring fu nerals. If one is weak or ailing they ghouid take time by forelock and take Dr. 's Nervura blood and nerve remedy Thi licine has been ir r cases, and tinue to be, means black angel from the grim it puri strength tones up and dition all eof gans of the body. Dr. Greene's nerve remedy wil take it to throw prove dangerous tack a system weakened. From many people, who have ex- perienced benefit from this grettest of all life-lengtheners comes the fol lowing from the famous General Long- street of 1217 New Hampshire avenue, Washington, D. C. He says: “It gives me great pleasure to add my testimony with many others for Dr. Greene's Remedy, which | have used with highly beneficial results and I am able to recommend its virtues from experience. I have used it for catarrh and have derived help.” Mr. Wellington Hynes, town, N. Y., writes: “1 feel it my duty to tell how much good Dr. Greene's Nervura has done me: 1 was so run down that I could notjsleep at night and everything wor. 1 had no appeti:. and could e how that we to sce In our per s take nlace the Greend great G¢ Nervu blood and 1 enable thos¢p who off little ills Lhat only when they at- already wasted and Elizabeth. there was an allgone feeling in {stomach and | was always looking he dark side of everything. 1 be- to take Dr. Greene's Nervura d and nerve remedy and in less three weeks | felt like a new I can now do as much work as xpected of a man my age. | advise any one who is troubled to take Dr. Greene's Nervura. Do not go to a doe- tor, but get a bottle of Dr. Greene's Nervura, It is cheaper than a doctor's bill" The latter part of “Ar. Hynes's ad- vice might be profitably disregarded. however, If youn should feel you would like the advice of a physician. You ean have such advice and have it free if you will write or call on the great. est known blood and nerve specialist, Dr. Greene, 35 W, 14th St, New York City. The Arkanasss Chaplain's Prayer. One of the strangest prayers that we remember to have read comes from Chaplain Noe, of the Arkansas House of Representatives: “O Lord, we thank Thee that we are not in the lunatic asylum this morning nor considered fit subjects for the same.” The innuendo seems to be that some other morning the case might be differ ent. 1 yoth want “good digestion to walt up- on your \ppetite’ you shon d always chew a bar of Mams' Pepsin | utti Frutti, The Chinese caligraphist wees two col. ors—blackiand red. THE PRINTED WORD. Dr. Talmage Says Sacred Stupidity and Laziness is Rebuked by Christ. A Call for a Warm Friendship Between Those Who Preach the Gospel and Those Who Make Newspapers. {Copyright 1801.) WasmxotToN, D. C.—In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a warm friendship between those who preach the gospel and those who make newspapers, the spoken word and the printed word to go side by side; text, Luke xvi, 8, “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” Sacred stupidity and solemn incompe- tency and sanctified laziness are here re- buked by Christ, He says worldlings are wider awake fcr opportunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occa- sions, while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when He says, “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.” A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular press. The opportunity is open, and has been for some time open, but the ministers of religion are for most part allowing the golden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportu. nity is open | declare from the fact that all the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you pre- sent them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian institution, you could go into any newspaper office of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedica- tion services, ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, cornerstone laying of a church, anniversary of a charitable gociety will have reasonable space in any secular journal if it have previous notice given If I had some great injustice done me, there is not an editorial or reportorial room in the United States that man Why, then, does not « tianity embrace tunity 1s int these [ have before me a subject « first and last importance: How shall w gecure ular enforcement to religion and the pu The toward this res the sed first hing newspaperdom. You might as well de nounce the legal profession because of the shysters or the medical profession because of the swindling bargain makers as to glambang newspapers because there are unclean columns of the art of of srinting, was about to de I cause it was suggested to him that prin ing might be suborned into the service the devil, but afterward he bethought him- self that the right use of the art might more than overcome the evil use of it, and so he spared the type and the intelli gence of all following ages. But there are many to-day in the peated mood of Gutenberg, with uplifted hammer, want- ing to pound to pieces the type, who have not reached his better mood in which he saw the art yrinting to be the rising sun of the world's illumination. If, instead of fighting newspapers, we spend the same length of time and the same vehemence in marshaling their help in religious directions, we would be as much wiser as the man who gets consent of the railroad superintendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train shows better pense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express, The silliest thing that a man ever does is to fight a newspaper, for you may have the floor for utterance perhaps for one day in the week, while the newspaper has the floor every day in the week Napoleon, th } ighty man, had many weaknesses, of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the English new s did not stop their adverse « self he would. with 400.000 ba the channel for of rit their cl Pont YOR cCitement get Ji tie iat l if you have n sense and equipoise of disg . . it yu mig there ia an enormous al gense in the world, and you will ever be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up, and you can- not be written down, and if you are the enemy of good society that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good so- ciety that fact will be established. I know what [ am talking about, for 1 can draw on my own experience. All the yespectable newspapers, as far as I know, sre my friends now. But many of you re member the time when I was the most gontinuously and meanly attacked man in this country. God gave me grace not to answer Rr and 1 kept silence for ten ears, and much grace was required. What i gaid was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what 1 did say. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in my pulpit, al though we never had anything but a chair, end that during the singing by the con- gregation 1 was accustomed to lie down on that sofa and dangle my feet over the end. Lying New York correspondents for ten years misrepresented our church services. But we waited, and people from every neighborhood of Christendom came there, to find the magnitude of the false hoods concerning the church and concern ing myself. A reaction eet in, and soon we had justice, full justice, more than jus tice, and as much overpraise as once we had underappreciation, and no man that ever lived was so much indebled to the newspaper press for opporunity to preach the gospel as I am. Young men in the ministry, young men in all professions and occupations, wait. You can afford to wait. Take rough mis representation as a Turkish towel to start up your languid circulation or a system of massage or Swedish movement, whose pokes and pulls and twists and thrusts are salutary treatment. There is only one person you need to | manage, and that is yourself. eep your dispositions sweet by confmunion with Christ, who answered not in, get so- | ciety of genial people and walk out in the sunshine with your bat off and you will | come out all right. And don't join the crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers, Again, in this effort to secure the secu. lar press as a mightier re-enforcement of ! religion. let us make it the avenue of re | ligious information. If you would secure { the press as a mightier re-enforcement of | religion and the pulpit extend widest and highest Christian courtesies to the repre. sentatives of journalism, Give them easy chairs and plenty of room when they come | to report occasions. For the most part they are gentlemen of education and re: finement, graduates of colleges, with fam- | ilies to support by their literary craft, | many of them weary with the push of a business that is precarious and fluctuating, i each one of them the avenue of infomation to thousands of ers, their impression {of the services to the impression | adopted by multitudes. They are connect | ing links between a sermon or a song or [a prayer, and this great population that | tramp up and down the streets day by | day and I by year with their sorrows ! uncomforied and their sins unpardoned. Oh, the hundreds of thousands of people in our cities who never attend churches! Our cities are not so much preached to by hie ity sedative that 3 nount of ©o i ministers of religion as by reporters. Put all journalists into our prayers and ser mons. Of all the hundred thousand ser- mons preached to-day there will not be vhree preached to journalists and proba- bly not one. Of all the pravers offered for fered for the most potential class will be thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. There are many journalists in our church mem- berships, but this world will never be brought to God until some revival of re- ligion sweeps over the land and takes into the kinadom of God all editors, reporters, compositors, pressmen and newsboys. And if you have not faith enough to pray for that and toil for that yon had better get out of our ranks and join the other side, for you are the unbelievers who make the wheels of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle be- tween truth and error, the Armageddon, I think, will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but with pens—quill pens before that the pens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the be the pen—prophet’s pen, and evangel- ist’s pen and apostle's pen, followed by editor's pen and author's pen and report. er's pen. God save the pen! of the Apocalyptic angel will be printed page. The printing press will roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way. “But,” some one might ask, “would you make Sunday newspapers also a re-enforce- ment?’ 1 have learned to take things as they are. I would like to see the much eed at old Puritan Sghbaths come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women mothers under the old-fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers are killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen Every man, woman and child is entitled to twenty four hours of nothing to do. If the news- papers put on another set of hands, that does not relieve the and repor- torial room of its cares and responsi ties. Our literary men die without killing them with Sundav w All things are possible with God, editorial fast religious victory would newspaper printn earth are going to be th graph and telephone a nounce nations born in book ever printed was the i and his son-in-law, Sehe 1400, and thas consecration of type to the Holy Seriptures was a prophecy of the great of printing for the evangelization i nat The the American printing press w nan, Glover. and RUrprise me of and tele of r will yet The fi bv F an anst wiler, in ail the ang her of Jensen y that was a ey of the religious use that the gosp ninistry in this gountry were to mak tendency of eriti seminar: is to file men too the fram irom sm logical young them tion. off our for anv k of want, all of us, 1s point, less humdrum. If we say i thing in the right way, the pr will and echo and reecho jt. Sunday school teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if we arg to make the printing press execu we the TER reporter spoken of suggested points i sharp points, memorable points But if voice it will be a hundredfold more dead when it is laid out in cold type of reporters to have a mighty share in the world's redemption is suggested by along with them, and he reported their addresses and their acts, Luke was a reporter, and he wrote not work we would have known nothing of martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha's res unjailing of Paul and Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at Mejita. Strike out the reporter's work from Bible, and you kill a large part of New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the kingdom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty part ut twenty -hive Years Ag0 A represer f an the reading « hen began to deride for some i mble, and he, ra his pencil broke down and again and then put i and his head down on the front pew and began to pray. At the close of the service he came up and asked for the others, and gave his heart to God iy he is an evangelist and hires a hall at his own expense and every Sunday afte preaches Jesus Christ to the people And the men of that profession are country. more genial or highly educated ciasa of men it would be hard to find, and, though the tenaency of their profession may toward sive dticiam, an organized common sense gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor Men of the pencil and pen in all depart- ments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the day when people want to get their newspapers at two cents, and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at one cent, and as a conse: quence the attaches of the printing press are by the thousand ground under the cy- linders, you want God to take care of you and your families. Some of your best work is as much un- appreciated as was Milton's "Paradise Lost,” for which the author received and the immortal poem “Hohenlinden’ of Thomas" Campbell when he firet offered it for publication, and in the column ealled “Notices to Correspondenta” appeared the words: “To T. C.—The lines commencing ‘On Linden when the sun was low’ are not ¥p to our standard. Poetry isnot T. C's orte. © men of the pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated work you need encourage- ment, and you have it. Printers of all Christendom, editors, reporters, composi- tors, pressmen, publishers and readers of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up, edit, issue or read anything that debases body, mind or soul, In the name of God, by the laying on of the hands of faith and prayer, ordain the printing press for righteousness and liberty and salvation. All of us with some influ. ence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the work, implor- ing God to hasten the consummation. In a nip with hundreds of ngers ap. proaching the South American coast the man on the lookout neglected his work, and in a few minutes the ship would have been dashed to ruin on the rocks. But a cricket on board the vessel that had made no sound all the voyage set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the captai knowing that habit of the insect, st the vessel in time to avoid an awful wreck, And mo insignificant means may now do wonders, and the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul, Are you all ready for the signing of the contract, the league, the solemn treaty proposed between journalism and evan. gelism? let it be a Christian marri of the Juipit and the printing press, ordination of the former on my head, the pen of the latter in hand, it is appro. priate that 1 publish the banns of such a marriage. them from this day be one in the t work of the world’s re demption. CURES RHEUMATISM OR CATARRH IN ADAY, TREATMENT F~EE, B. B., B. (Botanie Blood Balm) cures the { the blood and bones. 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