THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA THURS] AY, NOVEMBER 5, 1 ROG, AUTU MN The Glories of Nature Typloal of Higher Things. L EAV ES. Like the Foliage of the Trees of the Forest tho Christian's Character Is Never So Heautifal as When He Is Dying. Dr. Talmage in his latest Washington sermon drew some very beautiful les sons and pen- pictures from the grand- our of the autumnal scenery of forest and stream. His text being Isaiah 64: 68: “We all do fade as a leaf.” It is so hard for us to understand re- ligious truth that God constantly reit- erates. As the school master takes a blackboard and puts upon it figures and diagrams, so that the scholar may not only get his lesson through the ear, but also through the eye, so God takes all the truths of His Bible and draws them out in diagram on the matural world. Champollion, the famous Frenchman, went down into Egypt to study the hieroglyphics on monuments and temples. After much labor he de- ciphered them and announced to the learned world the result of his investi- gations. The wisdom, goodness, and power of God are written” in hiero- glyphics all over the earth and all over the heaven. God grant that we may have understanding enough to decipher them! There are scriptural passages, like my text, which need to be in the very of the world. Habakkuk says, ‘Thou makest my hind’s feet”; a which means nothing save to the man that that the feet of the red deer, or hind, are pecul rly 1, so that they tres ben siruciedq, slippery rocks witl studied presence 151 feet like passage Knows can walk ing that { Habakkul 1 he re branch put hath of t ww in a lowly sprig; branch to of the Lord Here you would <ing up its mind to looked as if, it stood bathad banks of Lake hills over which pouring cataracts of ssed up and down, and whither by the rocks, Through some of the ravines we saw occasionally a foaming stream, as though it were rushing to put out the conflagration. If at one end of the woods a commanding tree would set up its crimson banner the whole forest prepare to follow, If urn of colors were not infinite one swamp that I saw along the Maumee would have exhausted it It seemed as if the sea of divine glory had dashed its surf to the tip top of the Alleghenles, and then it had come dripping down to lowest leaf and deepest cavern. Most persons pregehing from this text find only in it a vein of sadness. 1 find that I have two strings to this gospel harp a string of sadness and a string of joy infinite “We all do fade as a leaf” First. Like the follage, wo fade grad ually. The leaves which, week before last, felt the frost, have, day by day, been changing in tint, and will for many days yet cling to the bough, waiting for the fist of the wind to strike them. Suppose you that the plestet leaf that you hold in your und took on its color in an hour, or in aday, or lu n week? No Deeper and deeper the flush, till all the veins of ita life now seem opened and bleed ing away, After a while, leaf after leaf, they fall. Now those on the outer branches, then those most hidden, un- til the last spark of the gleaming forge shall have teen quenched. Bo gradually we nw From day to day we seo the change. then they rushed up from branch glory ibmerged find a tree jn change, an one wounded at every pore, in carnage. Along the Huron there there seemed fire, te every were God's fe rever., | only make natural | The Now a But the frosts have touched us, work of decay is going on. slight cold Now a season of over. fatigue. Now a fever. Now a stitch in the side. Now a neurnlgic thrust Now a rheumatic twinge. Now a fall, Little by little. Pain by pain. Less steady of limb, Sight not so clear. Ear not so alert, After awhile we take a staff. Then, after much resistance, we come to spectacles, Instead of bounding into the vehicle, we are will- ing to be helped in. At last the octoge- narian falls. Forty years of decaying. No sudden change. No fierce cannon- ading of the batteries of life; but a fading away ~glowly—gradually. As the leaf! As the leaf! Again; Like the leaf we fade, make room for others. Next forests will be as grandly foliaged as this. There are other generations of oak leaves to take the place of those which this autumn perish. Next May the cradle of the wind will rock the young buds, The woods will be all a-hum with the chorus of leafy voices, If the tree in front of your house, like Elijah, takes a chariot of fire, its mantle will fall upon Elisha. If, in the blast of these autumnal batteries, so many ranks fall, there are reserve o 1 oi > fe N : at forces to take their place to defend the | without religion, 8) 1 {| ances hills, The beaters gold leaf will have more gold leaf to beat. The crown that drops to-day from the head of the oak will be picked fortress of the {up and handed down for other kings Let the blasts room for other life. So, when go, others take We do not grudge the future s their places. We Let th rir good time. to wear, come. They we our sphe res, generation will have our good time. ¢m come on have the There is no among the leaves to-day, be- ther leaves are f prea I never was so young and reme y byt n tha IEALS, In WOe § ack 3 mber when, tting room, the hest and werd gh reaching dren played, the blit est of all the company Althou vears of age, t and mother score ey never gol old isturbed as die. Pes important Do not be d i YOu see grin and great men pie personagt ‘His taken But worry when passes oil Hace will her the stage, and say, never be church nor the st here will be’ others to take th ate will hen God lakes one man awa that will What es of #11 these dea and shape of Axminster hold thie as Who on 1 count the hosts that s funeral pyre of the in concert The clock that strikes the hour of our going will sound the going of many thousands. Keeping with the feet of those who carry us out will be the tramp of hundreds the same errand, letween BO feople every day lie down in coud gurn mountains? So we die step loing and Greenwood 000 of the dead the gate, 70 I said to the man at “Then if there are so many here, you must have the largest ceme tery." He said there were two Roman Catholic cemeteries in the eity, each of which had more than this. We are all dying great cities of the world. The grave is the great city. It hath mightier population, longer streets, brighter lights, thicker darkness. Caesar Is there, and all his subjects Nero is there, and all his vietims, City of kings and paupers! It has swallowed up in its immigrations Thebes, and Tyre, and Babylon, and will swallow all our cities, Yet, City of Silence. No volee. No hoof, No wheel. No clash. No smiting of hammer. No clack of flying loom. No jar. No whisper. Great City of Si- lence! Of ali its million million hands, not one of them is lifted. Of all its million million eyes, not one of them sparkles. Of all ita million million hearts not one pulsates, The living are ln small minority, If, In the moment of time, rome great question between the living and the dead should be put, and God ealled up all the dead and the living to decide it, as we lifted our hands, and from all the resting places of the dead they lifted their hands, the dead would out. vote us. Why, the multitude of the dying and the dead are as these au ‘tumnal leaves drifting under our feet to-day. We mareh on toward eternity, not by companies of a hundred or reg- { ance the leaves depart, so do we, | have | wall, | is no | One to |! +. | one year's | | more { the whole body amputated from the w | soul forever. | That place has over 200,- | again, to | walk with. London and Pekin are not the | | we shall come again, i sion iments of a thousand, or brigades of 10,000, but 1,600,000,000 abreast! Maroh- ingon! Marching on! Again: As with variety of appear You at the their noticed that some trees, first touch of the frost, lose all | beauty; they stand withered, and un- comely, and ragged, i northeast storm to drive them into the | mire, | gilds them with no beauty | leaves! | to study them waiting for the The sun shining at noonday Ragged No one stauds are gathered in They are hung on no So death smites many. There beauty in their departure sharp frost of sickness, or blast off the cold waters, and they are gone. No tinge of hope. No prophecy of Heaven. Their spring was all abloom with bright prospects; their leaves! They Dead no vase, | summer thick foliaged with opportu. but went. nities; October came, and their glory Frosted! In early au- tumn the frosts come, but do not seem to damage vegetation. They are light frosts. But some morning you look out of the window and say: “There was a black frost last night,” and you know that from that day everything will wither. So men seem to get along among the annoy- and vexations of life that nip them slightly here and nip them there But after awhile death Itisn black frost, and all is ended. Oh, death makes among those not prepared to meet it! They hind Comes what withering and scattering leave everything their house lies, their friends, pleasant Ix then tures, and step out ing; though resting : many Christi of God, come are speeding graves shai hear fort eration to think always to lie in the beautiful the flow: we do not It would bes rs want to make INE resi 10@ in sueh a | | have with y CRC PVE of the the I do not close them in death I shall them again. It is sad enough to have f a hand or foot amputated. In a hos 8 sen Hing ries of the natural world, ar that en | wie radiant faces of my friends want to think that w never open | pital, after a soldier had his hand taken | off, he said: you have done me a great deal of good | service,” “Goodby, dear old hand, It ian having burst into tears thing to think of and awful must have my body soe with, 0 hear with, to With this hand 1 must clasp the hand of my loved ones when I have passed clean over Jordan, and | with it wave the triumphs of my King. Aha! we shall rise again-—we shall rise again As the leaf! As the leaf! Crossing the Atlantic the ship may | founder and our bodies be eaten by the but God tameth leviathan, and In awful explo of factory boller our bodies may be shattered into a hundred fragments into the air; but God watches the diss aster, and we shall come again. He will drag the deep, and ransack the tomb, and upturn the wilderness, and torture the mountain, but He will find us, and feteh us out and up to judg: ment and to victory, We shall come up with perfect eye, with perfect hand, with perfect foot, and wih perfect body. All weaknesses left behind We fall, but we rise; we die, but we live again! We moulder away, but we come to higher unfolding. As ithe leaf! As the leaf] sharks; Compression of Feet In China. Native Christian women in China have formed a soclety to discourage tho custom of compressing the feet of children, Sunlight in Deep Water, In the ocean, at a depth of 500 {eet below the surface, the sun has mile laminating about equal to he light of the joy A REMARKABLE I'EAT A PENMAN PUTS 6,454 WORDS ON AN ORDINARY POSTAL CARD. Onn Space Five Three He One of Zoln's Ro to Fil} by Inches, Puts Pages From mances, Enough Five News pauper Columns, A most remarkable feat of penman- ship is that just accomplished by L. A Grincourt, a young Frenchman now re siding in this city. So remarkable is it that its accomplishraent would seem be- yond belief, were it not for the positive and tangible evidence that no man, no matter how incredulous he may be, can dispute. As it is, the perfected work stands as the best known record for di- minutive pen writing, and marks the author as the possessor of a peculiar talent of which he is very easily a mas ter, On the back of an ordinary postal card he has written 5.454 words, In do- ing this he used a steel pen of the pat tern commonly used by card writers, It must not be supposed that the words written on the card were selected be- cause of their brevity, for such is not the case, The written words are a por of a story-—the first eighteen pages of Emil Zcla's historical romance, ‘La Debacle” (The War”). Each word is on the card in the order in which it ap pears in the original text, a space 8x5 ng the same phrases, sen and letters as are contain ed matter, d by the § Lorn te pu on the \ style ' in lead A No velty in Mining Camps periment by a will be moved working t fr for gold France Will Make a Splurge. France means to make a splurge the Czar of Deg the sug pe r which the French dor. the Comte de Montbello now the jor member of the St ersburg diplomatic corps, will give at his Moscow ball. The fruit, flowers, and vegetables will all be brought from France, and a gilt coach of the 18th century, now in the Cluny Museum, will be sent for the use of the Ambas sador, hamber x) for A mbassa- who is Pet ' nas Juss i 9 s0n A New Hateheot Story. A hatchet bearing the name of Robert La Salle, the French explorer, the motto “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,” and the date 1655 was found imbedded in the | trunk of a tree which was cut down in southern Cheboygan County, Mich,, a | fow days ago. The wood of the tree had grown completely around hatohet, and there was no sign of its presence on the outside. The probably that of the manufacture of the hatchet. The motto is Jesuit order to which La Salle be longed. Maria Theresa After Muscle. Archduchess Maria Theresa of Ans: tria is emulating Sandow, tices with large dumbbells, and can lift a man with one hand. She is said one occasion, when a heavy iron column fell on & man, to have lifted it high enough to enable him to be drawn from under. She is a delicate looking woman of thirty four, wife of the Archduke Karl Stephan, and mother of five chil. dren, A Hint to the Hostess, The Romans in the days of Horace used to perfume their drinks with rose loaves, Now, if we wish to do honor te an a iserentinig guest, we may borrow a ty notion from the Germans, Intro | dainty by no less a personage, 1 am told, han be Bri Kd bever By to give ha romance and a certain classical Toton is added some petals of violets. the | date is that of the | | W. C. HEINLE, Attorney -at-law, She prac- | on | MRS. PINKHAM'S VICTORY, Sraightforward Declaration by Mrs. Sidney Hamlet. ———— “ Curcd by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Ailing Since Junction of Girlhood and Wo- manhood--Physicians Pronounced Case ““ Proiapsus Uteri”’ -- Could Not Walk Without Pain--Words Inadequate to Ex- press Her Gratitude for Relief Received. Red House, Va, “My heart goes o To Mrs. Pinkham: Lin sympathy to all who are suffering with troubles pecu Har to the female I would like to truly grate «good have d nade- L y ou Sid- Remember the all-important fact that in addressing ham you are communicating your private ills to a woman--a woman whose experience is greater than —— Mrs. Pink= any male physician in America. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man, Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., is more than ready and willing to have you write her if you arc in doubt, She will gladly answer every letter, Her advice is free. PROFESSIONAL CARDS at 2 ~ ; 11IR eae > ’ - WY H TAY LOK ttorney-at-law ,~Office in Temple Court. Taxcollector of Bellefonte boro. Collections prompt. ly attended to 8S. D. 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