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TiP.V TIT? TATAlAfrK
1UJI. I'll, i-XV JJl.iXJ JJ.
THE BROOKIjYX DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMOX.
Subject: ''Oblivion and Its Defeats.
Tixthi aITe taU 6 no mart remtm
btred,'' Job xxiv., 20 ; "Th righteout thai
&e in tverlatting remembrance," Psalms exit.
6.
"Oblivion and Its Defeats' is my subject
to-day. There Is an old monster that swal
lows down everything. It crunches indi
viduals, families, communities, States, Na
tions, continents, hemispheres, worlds. Its
diet Is made up of years, of centuries, of
sees, of cvcIrs. of millenniums, or eons.
Thnt monster is called by Noah Webster and
all the other ctietionnrlam oblivion. It is a
steep down wui.-h everything rolls. It is a
conilntrrutlon In which everything is con
snmed. It U a dirce in whicn all orohestras
rlay and a period at which everything stop,
t Is the cemetery of too human r:io. It is
the do-roiin of foretfulnees. Oblivion At
times it throws a shadow over all of us. and
I would not pronounee it to-day if I did not
come armed in the strength of the eternal
God on your behalf to attack it, to rout it, tc
demolish it.
Whv. iust loo'i at the way the families of
he enrth riia'iTtn For awhilethey are to
gether, Insep.ir.tmn and to each other indis
pensable, and then tney part, soma uy dim
ria(f uroinsr to e-ttbliah other homes, and
some leave this life, and a century is loni;
enough to plant a family, develop it, prosper
It and obliterate it. So the generations van
ish. Walk up Eroa lway. New York : Statestreet,
Jlostonj Chestnut street, I'bils ielphia ; the
Strand, London ; Princes street, Edinburgh ,
Champs Klvsees, Paris ; Unter den Under),
iierlin, and you will mint in this year ll'.i I
not one p ron who walke 1 it in 173:1. What
eusrulfment ! All the ordinary effort at per-
i r,;Nif.Mi Wnlrer Si'urt'a
liin.i xi-, ..H." noip cm rimn.i with bis I
chisel to reent the fil led epitaphs on to nl
stones, but Old Oblivion has a quicker chisel
wltn whh'h he can cut out a thousand epi
taphs while "Old Mortality" iseuttinir in one
epitaph. Whole libraries of biographies de
voured of bookworms or unread of the rising
generations
All the siimsof the stores and warehouse
of great tlrrns have changed, unless lbs
prand.jons think that it is an advantage t
keep the old siirn up, be -ause the name ol
the ancestor was more commendatory than
the name of the descendant. The city at
l!om stands to-day, but diit down deep
enouch and you come to another Home,
buried, and co down still farther and you
will l!nd a third Rome. Jerusalem stands to
day, but din down deep enough and you will
find a Jerusalem underneath, and ko on an 1
deeper down a third Jerusalem. Alexn lr.n
on the top of an Alexandria, and the secon 1
on the ie of the third.
Many of the ancient cities arc burle 1 thirty
feet deep, or fl'tyde:'p. or 100 feet. What
was the mattery Any special cal.imlty? N'-.
The winds and waves and sands an I flvin
dust are all undertakers and grave di,-i: , r-i,
unlit the world stunts Ion;? enough the
present Itrooklyn and N'ew York and London
will have on top o' tli.':n other liro:klyui
and New Vorks and Lon bins, and oniv a t-i
dit'uinand .i,r.n-' and blastimr will t!:e
ar "ueoloist of far distant centuries eoaie
down as far as the hiir'iest spir js an 1 ' n
und turrets of our j-ri?eiit Amerie.iij an 1
i.uropean citiis.
C'nll the roll of the armies of liildw.n I.,
or of Charies Martel, or of Marlborough, oi
of Mithri'lates. or of l'rin -e Fre ler-k, or ol
Cortes, and not one answer will you hear.
Stand them in Hue and call the roll of 1.0J0,-
000 men in the nrmv of Thebes. Not one
answer. S'an 1 them in line, the l.iOJ.hiO
infantry and the aOO.OnO cavalry of the As-
Syrian ar;iiy un ier Ninus, an 1 call the roll.
Nut one answer. Stand in line the 1,00 1.000
men of S -so-tns tne. i,-jikj,djii men oi ami-
erxisj at 'anum. the 2,t'.ll.000 men under
Xerxes at 'i'nerniopyhc, and call the long
roll. Not one answer.
At the opening ot our civil war the men of
the Northern and Southern armies were told
that if they fed in battle their names would
never be forgotten by their country. Out of
the million men who fell in battle or died in
military hospitals, you cannot oallthe names
of 1000, nor the names of 500, nor the names
of 100, nor the names of fifty. Oblivion I
Are the foet of the dangers who were at the
ball of the Duchess of Iticumond at Iirus-ls
the night before Waterloo nil still? All still. '
Are all the ears that heard the guns o Kan- I
ker Hill all deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes tnat
saw the coronation of lioorge III. all closed?
All closed. Oblivion' A Inn Ired years
from now there will not be a being on this
earth that knew wo ever lived.
In some old family record a descendant
studying up the areestr.il line may spell out
our name, an t Irom tne nearly ia iea in
with great effort, llnd that some person of
our name was born somewhere between 1M10
and IS'jO. but they will know no more about
us than we know about the color of a child's
eves Lorn last night in a village in Pata
gonia. Tell me si. ii .'tiling about your -r"it-grnndfathi
r. What w p- his features? Wnat
did he do? What year was be born? Whr.t
year did he die? And your great-grandmother.
Will you describe the style of the
hat she wore, an 1 how did she and your
grent-graudfiither cet on in each other's
companionship? Was it March weather or
June?
Oblivion ! Thnt mountain surge rolls ovei
everything. Even the pyramids are dying.
Not a dav passes but ih"re is chiseled off a
chip of that granite. The sea is triumphing
over the Inn I. au 1 what is going on at Coney
island is guing on all around the world, and
the continents arc crumbling into the waves,
nnd while tins is transpiring on the outside
of the world the hot clt.s d ol the eternal fire
is digging under the fouu lation of the earth
and cutting its way out towarl the surface.
It surprises nie to hear people say they do
not think the world will finally be burned
up, when all scientists will tell you that it
has for ag-s been on lire. Why, there is only
a cru-t between us and the furnaces ins;d
raging to get out.
Oblivion". The world itself will roll into
it as easily as a schoolboy's india rubber ball
rolls down a hill, and when our world goes
it Is so interlocked bythe law of gravitation
with other worlds that they will go, too, and
so far from having our memory perpetuated
by a monument of Aberdeen granite in this
world there is no world in sight of our
strongest telescope that will be a sure pedi
ment for any slab of commemoration of the
fact that we ever lived or died at all. Our
earth is struck with death. The axletree of
the constellations will break and let down
the population of other worlds. Stellar,
lunar, solar mortality. O.divion' It can
swallow and will swallow whole galaxies ol
worlds as easily as a crocodile takes down
t frog.
Yet oblivion does not remove or swallow
anything that had hetter not be removed or
(wallowed. The old monster is welcome to
his meal. This worl 1 would long ago have
been overcrowded if it bad not been for the
merciful removal ot Nations and genera
tions. What if all the books had lived that
were ever wrttten and printed and pub
lished? The libraries would by their im
mensity have obstructed intelligence anlj
made all research impossible. The fatal,
epidemic of books was a merciful epidemic.!
Many of the State and National libraries1
to-day are only morgus In which dead
books aro waiting for some one to come and
recognize them. What if all the people
that had been born were still alive? We
would have been elbowed by our ancestors
often centuries ago, and people who ougnt
to have said their last word 3000 years ago
would snarl at us, saying, "What are you
doing here?" There would have been no
room to turn around. Some of the past
generations of mankind were not worth re
membering. The tirst usoful thing that
many people did was to die, their cradle s
misfortune and their graven boon.
This world was hardly a comfortable place
to live in before the middle ot the last cen
tury. So many thinrs bavs cinft into tbp
werld th-.r w -r' not lit to stay in. we ought
to tie gl 1 1 they wi'-i put out. The waters of
L"the. tiie tountain of forget fulness, are a
healthful drart. The history we have of the
wend in ages past is always one sided and
cairn it be ilepml'l on. History is fiction
llliist rde 1 by a fe .v straggling f ..-. In nil
the r.mfheo.i th weakest goddess is Clio,
the go t ! -ss of history, an 1 inst-i of being
r "presented by seu'ptors as holding a scroll
might b-rter be repres mte i as limping on
cru'ch11-.,
Ea t'-'ul history is tho saving of a few
things out of more things lost. The Immor
tality that eo-ncs :rom pomp of o'wequies, or
eranite shaft, or nuildirig named after its
founder, or page of reen nidion I" some en-.-yclopi"
Ha is nn immortality in;7orthy of
due's it'Tihitioa, for it will eeass n 1 's no im
mortality at all. Ohliviou! buuirel
years, jiut while I recognize this universal
itibmerg-'nce of things earthly who wants to
he forgtten? Nut one of ns.
Absent for a few weeks or months fron
home, it cheers us to know that we are re
membered there. It is a phrase wo hav all
pronounced, "I hope vou missed me. Meet
ing some friends from whom wni h". e been
parted many years, we inquire.
Did you
ever se me before?" and they say, "'Yes,
tn 1 e til us by name, and we feel a delight
ful sensation thrilling through their hand
into our hand, and running up from elbow
to shoulder, nnd then parting, the one eur
rert of delight ascen ling to the brow an I
the other descending to the foot, moving
round and round in concentric circles until
very nerve and muscle an 1 capacity of body
ind mind and soul is permeated with de
hK"t. I
. A Je wdajs ago, visiting the lace of my
! Vvrhood, I met ono whom I 1
Jimplaveltototborat tei
I ml I had peculiar pleasure in
had not seen
ten years of acre.
puzziin? nun
a little as to who I was, and I can hardly d
Keribe the sensation as after awhile he mum
bled out : "Let me see. Yes, you are De
Witt." We all like to be remembered,
i Now, I have to tell you that this oblivion
P' w iich I have spoken has its defeats, and
that there Is no more reason why we should
not be distinctly and vividly and gloriously
remembered five hundred million billion
trillion quadrillion quintillion years from
now than that we should be remembers i six
weeks. I am Koine to tell you how thething
:an be done and will be done.
We may build this "everlastinz remem
Sranoo," as my text styles it, into the super
nal existence of those to whom we do klnd-oess-s
In this world. You must remember
that this infirm and trevherous faculty
which we now call memory is in the future
state to be oomplete an I perfect, "Ever
lasting remembrance '" Nothing will sip
the slont grip of that celestial faculty. Did
yon help a widow pay her rent? Did you
And for that man released from prison a
place to get honest work? Did you pick up
child fallen on the curbstone, and by a
rtick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt
fon his scratched knee? Did you assure a
'business man, swamped by the stringency of
rh3 money market, that times would after
.twhile be better''
Did you lea I a Slag lalen of tho street into
1 midnight mission, where the Lord said to
her : "Neither do Iconiemn thee ; go an 1 sin
do more?" Dili yon tell a man, clear dis
co iraired in his waywardness and hopeless
nl plotting sulci ie, that for him was near
jy a laver in whiuh he mh-'ht wash, and a
oron t of eternal blessadn-ss he might
ye ir?
Wlrtt ar epitaphs in gr.ivey.ir ds, what aro
?u:ojiuns in presence of those whose breath)
is In their nostrils, what are unra I bior.t
ohles in the aleovei of city llhruy. com
pared with the imperishable records you
inve ma le in the illumined memories of
:V" to whom vou ill 1 suli kindnesses?
For,'"t them? They cannot forgot them.
Notwithstanding all their might and splen
dor, there are some things the glorille l of
ne:ivn cannot do, an 1 this is oi;e, of them.
They cannot forget an earthly kindness
ion". T iey have no cutlass to part that
iT'l-. T ley have no stren,ita to hurl into
ob'ivion that benefaction.
II is P iul forgotten the inhabitants of
Malta, who extended the island hospitality
when he and others with him hail felt, added
o a shlriwreck. the drenching rain an 1 the
harp cold? lias the victim of the highway
man oa the road to Jericho forgotten the
Good Samaritan with a medicament of oil
mil wine and a free ride to the hostelry?
Have the English soldiers who went up to
Rod from the Crimean battlcllolds forgottcr
Florenee Nightingale?
Through all eternity will the Northern and
Southern soldiers forget the Northern and
Southern women who administered to the
lying boys la blue and gr.iy after the awful
fights in Tennesse and Pennsylvania and
Virginia an I Oeorgia, which turne i every
house an 1 barn and sae.l into a hospital, an i
incarnadined the riusquehanna, and the
James, :md lus Chattahoo-hee, an I the Sa
vannah with brve h!oo I? The kindnesses
you do to others will stati I as long in the ap
preciation of o! hsrs as the irates of heaven
w.ll stand, as the "House of Many Mansions"
will stand, as long as the throne of Go I will
stan-!.
Another defeat of o ilivin will be fotin'i
in t ie c l ir ic-ter ofthos i w 10 n w rescue,
uplift orsive. Caar ft. -r is eternal. Su;
pjs." by a right in.'lu -a re w aid in trans
lor nin ? a bad man into a goo 1 man, a dol
orous man into n happy man, a dishearten-d
man into a courag-'oas man ev.'ry stroke of
that work done will be immortaiized. Thern
any nevr iw so mueh as one line in a news-
. y .."') ...... ......
ever whisper it into human ear. but w icr.1-
everthat oul sliall go your work unon it
shall go. wherever that soul r
ses your worx
! upon it shall rise, aud so long as that soul
' will lat your work on it will last.
I Do you Siippose thisre will ever come such
an idiotic lapse In tlie history of that soul in
neaven tnat ll snail iorgct mat you inv.tea
mm to Christ ; mat you, ny pray r or gospel
word, turned him roan 1 from the wrong way
to the right way? No sujh insanity -.vill ever
smite a heav-niy citizen. It is not half as
well oa earth kuiwn that Carisioph-r Wren
planned and built St. Paul's as it will be
known in all heaven that
tru mentality of bud ilug
yo:i wore the i:i
a tempie for the
iy.
We tench a S a'lbath ci:is', or put a Chris,
ti an tr.iet in the han 1 of a passerby, or tes
tify for Christ in a prayer meeting, or ireaca
n s r noa. and go homo discourage 1, as
though nothing ha 1 beenai'co iipiished, when
we iia 1 been character building with a ma
terial that no frost or earthquake or rolling
M the centuries can damage or bring down.
There is no s.iblitnVr art in the world than
irehiteeture. With pencil and rule and com
pass the architect sits down alono and In si
lence, nnd evolves from hisoivn brain a ca
thedral, or a National capito!, or a massive
home before he leaves that table, Bill then ho
I nT Hn.i i,r,,l,s his nlans. and calls car.
. ,,ntPr9 an,j m,.sons an 1 artisans of all sorts
to execute his design, and when it is Unished
he walks around tne van structure an i S " s
t'i completion of the wori with high satis-.a-'tion.
and oa a stone at some corner of thei
: -a ih ling tho architect's name tnny beehisele 1.
U it the storms do their wori, and time, that
iukes down everything, will yet take down
ihat structure until tnere shad not be one
tone left upon another.
But there is a sou', in heaven. Throu ;
your instrumentality it w is put thr r . Un
der God's grace you are the architect ot its
eternal happiness. Your name is written, not
on one corner of its nature, but iuwro igct
into its every liber and energy. ' Width"
storms of winter w ish out tho story oi w i n
you have wrought upon that spiritual s-.ru
ture? No. There are no storms in that land,
and there is no winter. Will time wear out
I the inscription wiiich shows your fidelity r
"so. Time is past, and it is an everinsting
now. Built into the foundation of that imper
ishable structure, built into its pillars, built
into its capstone, is your name either the
name you have on earth or the name by
which celestials shall cail you.
I know the Bible says iu one place tha,
God is a jealous Go I, but tnat reierstothe
work of those who worship some other god.
A true father is not jealous of his child.
With what glee you show the picture your
child penciled, or a toy ship your chil l
hewed out, or recite the noble deed your
cnt'a neeomrers'ie i j Ant cot never was
ieaious of a Jo-eia. nev r was jealous of a
I aul. nev-r was I'-rous of a l-r:n es Haver
gal, never was je i nus or a man or woman
who tried to bea' woun 's .ml wiru nway
iar an l ii!t Mir i":n ant save souls
and while nil Is o gra-'. an 1 your self
abnetf.ating it't"ra:ic w'b be, "Not unto
ns, nor unto us, t.Mt unto Thy name,
O Lorl, civ i-.Viry !'' you shall niw.ivs
feel a h"aven!y sa:isfi-:ion in every
good thing you did on eart'i, nnd if 1 'ono
clasm. borne tro n ben-ath. should break
through the rates o" heaven an 1 efface one
record of your earthly e, lelity, methinks
Christ woul 1 tae one of the nai's or ty:s
own cross nu 1 write s.i-iiiuvVpi en th" ervs
tal. or the anethvsi. or the j , , i r ; t Ji . orthe
ehrysoprasus. your na-iic an 1 ;ik nn b-r it
the inscription of mr t -xt, "T ie re-ht 'cis
ihall be held in ev.-rl isti.ag re n --v-r inc ."
Oh, this chara-dcr itiibbn-! You anil
are every motn-nt tisy in that trenvn ions
occupation. You ar-. making nu better or
worse, and I am ma'cing vou better or worse,
nnd we shall throu .-h all oremitv bear thf
mark of this benediction or b'ating.
Let others hav tin ti-r er-s ol heaven
those iriio have : .t;,v vr-m.-iit br
Ho 1 nn 1 the triir i bur it wir? ie be e' -i
enou ;h for you and me if vi-r an I anon we
meet some ra liatit sou! on thr? i.nuVv ir Is of
the great citv w 10 s'rei say "You he'pe
no one'. You eueoura-red m when I wa
!n earthly struggle. f did n t know Hint I
w."ml 1 have reached I'-iss 'lining tila.-e had it
not been for von." Au ! w will IrcuTh with
h-av mlv el an 1 say '-lit! b.a '. Do you
re-'iv remein't-rthat talk? Io vou re;-ie:ri-ber
that warnin Do von r "member that
Christian invitation? What a memory yon
have ! Why. that must have been down th-re
in Brooklyn or New Orleans at least ten
thousand million years ago." And the an
swer will b. "Yes, it was as long as that,
ut I remember it as well as though it were
resterdav."
Oh. this character building! The structure
lasting independent of passing centuries, in
dependent of crumbling mausoleums, Inde
pendent of the whole planetary system. Aye,
If the material universe, which see-rs all
bound together like one piece of machinery,
should someday meet with au accident that
should send worlds crashing into each oth-r
like telescoped railway trains, an I all the
wheels of constellations and galaxies should
Mop, and down into one chasm of immensity
sll the suns and moons and stars should
tumble like the midnight express at Abta
bula, that would not touch us and womd not
hurt God, for God is a spirit, and character
and memory are immortal, nnd over that
grave of a wrecked material universe mlirht
truthfully be written, "The righteous shall
e held in everlasting remembrance.'
O, Time, we defy thee! O, Death, we
stamp thee in the dust of thine own s-pul-chers!
O, Eternity, roll on till the last star
has stopped rotating, and the last sun is ex
tinguished on the sapphire pathway, and
the Inst moon hfta llliimineil thn lnzt ni-ht
land as many years have passed as all the
scribes that ever took pen could describe by
as many figures as they could write in all the
centuries of all time, but thou shalt have no
power to efface from any soul in glory the
memory of anything we have done to bring
t to God and heaven !
There is another and a more complete de
feat for oblivion, and thnt Is in the heart of
God himself. You nave seen a sailor roll up
bis sleeve and show you his arm tattooed
with the figure of a favorito shit) perhsni
the first ono In which be ever sailed. You,
lave seen joliller roll up Ms sleeve and
how you his arm tattooed with the figure
f a fortress which he was garrisoned, or
he face ot a (Treat jroneral undor whom he
ought. You hava seen many a hand tat
tooed with the face of a loved ono before or
liter marriage.
This tattooing Is almost as old as the world,
(t is some colored liquid punctured Into the
flesh so indelibly that nothing can wash it
out. It may have been there flty jars, but
when the man goes into his coffin that pic
ture will go with him on hand or arm. Now,
God says that he has tattooed us upon his
hands. There can be no other meaning in
the forty-ninth ohaf ter of Isaiah, where God
says. "Behold, I have graven thee on the
palms ol my hands !"
It was as much as to say "I cannot open
My hand to help, but I think of you. I can
not spread abroad My hands to bless, but I
think of you. Wherever I go up and down
the heavens I take these two pictures of vou
with Me. They are so inwrought into My
being that I cannot lose them. As long as
My hands last the memory of you will last.
Not on the back of My hands, as though to
nnnounee you to others, but on the palms of
My hands for Myself to look at and study
and love. Not on the palm of one hand
alone, but on the palms of both hands, for ,
while I am looking upon one hand and think-;
ing of you, I must have the other hand free
to protect you, free to strike back your
enemy, free to lift if you fall. T.Ums of My
hanils Indelibly tattooed! And though I
hold the winds in My flrsi no cyclone shall
unroot the inscription of jour name and
four face, anii ihough I hold the ocean in
:he hollow of My hand its billowing shall not
wish out the record of My remembrance.
'Behold, I have graven thee oa tho palms of
My hands.""
What joy, what honor can there be com
parable to that of being remembered by the
mightiest a:i I kindest and loveliest and ten
Sfri'it an l r.iot affectionate being in the
uuivorso? Think of it, to hold an everlasting
?iace In the heart of God. The heart of God !
ne megt beautiful palace in the universe.
L"t the archangel build some cala:a as
grand as that if he can. Lot him orumble up
1 the stars of yesternight ana to-morrow
night nnd put them together as mosaics for
lueb a palace Uoor. Let hlmtake all the sun
rises and sunsets of all the days and the
auroras of all the nights and hang them as
upholstery at its windows.
Let him take all the rivers, and all the
lakes and all the oceans, nnd toss them Into
the fountains of this palace court. Let him
take all the gold of all the hills and bang it iu
its chandeliers, and all the pearls of ali the
seas and nil tho diamonds of all the, tlelds,
ml with them arch the doorways of that
! palace, and then invite into it all the glories
' that Esther ever saw at a Persian banquet, or
Daniel ever walked among in iiabyioniau
j rastlcs, or Joseph ever witnesse 1 in Pharaoh's
! throneroom. and then yourself enter this
: castle of arehangello construction, and see
bow poor a palace it is compared with the
i greater palace that so ne of you have a'r-a iy
Found in the heart of a loving ,.n l par .ou ug
God, and Into which all the music, and ail
the prayers, and all the s-rmomo considera
tions of this day are trying to Intro luce you
through the bio j 1 of ttr ssa.a lam-..
! Oil where is oblivion now? Prom tha
' dark and ovcrsha lowing word that it seemed
when I be.'an. it bas Lecomo soaiothing
which no man or woman or child who loves
the Lord need ever e ir. Oblivion defenie 1.
OJlivion dea l. O jlivion se;.ulchre 1. li.it
I must not be so hurl on that devouring
monster, for into its grave o ali our sins
when the Lord for Christ's sake ha tor.given
them. Just blow a resurrection trumpet
over them when ince oblivion bas snapped
ihem down. Not one of them ris U:ow
again. Nut a stir ami 1 all the par tone 1 in
iquities ot a lifetime, li.ow again. N : one
of them moves in the de ; grave tr u -.vis.
But to this powcr.ess r arrcction tru np-t
voice responds, half bu a an. h.aif divine,
and it must be part man an I irt Go 1, say
ing, "Theirsins and their iniquities will I re
member no more."
Thank God for this blesie I oblivion ! So
you see I did not invite you down into a cel
lar, but upon a throne; not into the grave
yard to wuieh all materialism Is dest.ned,
but into a garden ail abloom with everlasting
remembrance. The frown of my tlrst text
has become the kiss of the second text. An
nihilation has become coronation. The wring
ing hands of a great agony have become the
cl.aoping hands of a great joy. Tiie requiem
with which we began hns become the grand
march with wliioh we close. The tear of
sadness that rollel down our cheek nss
;ruck the lip on which siu the laughter of
, Sternal triumph.
A Hard Worker.
'Working hard nowadays?'' aske
! I-'angb. ' Vls." replied Cumso, "it
i is.'1 .Exchange.
Mns. flosrp Vou seem to under
i I ... I . 1 . i.O f
I statu i our I! u-iii.i ill pLTieeii. . .'lis
! . e!l;t y . es He ta'ks in his slee.v
Ho who is nlwavs prying into other
men's uffairs leads n dangerous life.
M'lien a man hep-ins to do wrong, lie
cannot answer for himself how far he
in ay be carried on.
M.-inr a fond parent does not go to
f-leej iintd after the bawl is'over.
Hie l-.-oirt Time.
I'-w.pey is a 1 rilit nero boy,
ji'o e l lo do liu'ht '.. ork and run
ra.nls iu a hotirdini; house. 11. t
learned a jjood many things in
co ;rse ot his 'ii,'iit ye ns of life,
the art of r i i n;,' a cloclc-facc is
era.
er-
ha-i
the
but ,
not
as yet cMinnletelv under his control.
The expedients lo which h-? resorts
to conceal his itf-ioaneaon this and
other i niiits ate tn any and aaiusini:.
"What time is it, I Vmij.? asked a
youn,' man. into whose room th" boy
had hrou flit a hoilfiil of coal, and wli,
had not yet trot out of bed.
Pompey studied th.; clock-fare anx
iously for some seconds, and then said
iu an in-gr.i! ia t in ln:i :
It's one o' dein limes dat I can'
jes percisely nwlv' ( lit v!):it time it
tin. Mist' Wilkias. sail. H it uibj oh
ie hands is pin! ia' to les you. s ih, an'
!" udder Is pin! in' right todes nie,
sah, an' I n ek m you know 'zactif
what time dat, am."
MftltljIa Ili;it igr'ipliy,
A simple m.thol o' ihotorajihinj
a pe so i iu , ve illlTereni attitudes all
at once has I eeti :fiven ed i y a Mew
lerey photo "r.ii her. In- means of
wni Ii tne same pictu.c gives live
d iTVrent iewsof die siller. Th s is
ai coi:iii!shed bv u-iiiiK as a back
ground two plane in rrors, forming
bet . e n them an utere of forty-live
i-irces, and placing- tly person at
! ii'' . U!n t on. The use u!ues of such
o clure-i will not. lo oiillncl to or-
ii s iry li e, as tl.e- wiii be most val
a; in criminology aud authro-
lioioxy.
Evf.v if a wion an knows herself tj
oe less l. ;:ui i; til than others sh
iiever Ungues a tuaa for kuow.nt; it,
too.
Germany is sa'd to have 80,00t
itutterers. Ti.e German language
always b.cukU to us very hard to
master.
An inclined elevator, working or
the principle of a tread mill, is pro
posed to take the place of verticle ono
in business buildings.
Flow
" For two years I suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything', said my stomach was
worn out, aud that I would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of a friend I procured
a bottle of August Flower.. It seem
ed to do me good at once. I gained
strength and flesh rapidly. I feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me."
Jas. E. Dedericlc, Saugertiss, N.Y.9
St
99
6F
Indian Sport,
Colonel B , who was 7n2Q
agent on one of the Western reserva
tion during President Cleveland's ad
ministration, relates the fuHowinc
circumstance as showing- that the In
dian, however averse he may Le to
any kind of useful labor, is not 6low
to avail himself of a new source of
amusement. Amonp; the supplies
sent by the Government to the agency
were several hundred large frving
pans with long handles. These tho
colonel found in stock when he took
possession, and at the end of a rear
the nuruher had not been diminished.
Thinking that perhaps he had not
discharged his whole duty in the mat
ter of supplying Uncle Sam's wards
with these culinary utensils, the col
onel bejran making s; ecial efforts to
Induce the Indians to usa them. At
first It was uphill work, but by tho
time ho had Riven out about two
dozen, there came a sudden change.
Not a day passed that he did not
have applications for at least a dozen,
and some day he disposed of twice
that numher.
When the supply was nearly ex
hausted, he noticed among the appli
cants some to whom he haa previously
jiven pans, and he became curious to
know what use they were making ol
ihem. lie questioned several of the
men to no purpose, but at length a
young buck, more communicative
than the rest, gave him to under
stand that if he woiild visit a certain
part of the reservation, not far away,
he would find his injuiry answered.
The next day, therefore, he rode
out in tho direction indicated. After
two miles from the agen -y he noticed
on the crest of a narrow spur of the
mountain three or four Indians'who
su ldenly disappeared on the opposite
side of the riilga. At the same time
he heard, faintly, the cry of many
voices.
On turning to the point of the
rklge he saw a crowd of several hun
dred Indians, who were shouting as
if greatly ex. ited. lie noticed also
several objects, which he at first sup
posed to be boulders, descending the
sidn of th--; mountain toward them,
null frightful rapidity. Instead ol
fleeing from these moving objects, the
Indians simply clapp-'d their hauls
nnd sin. .Me I. Soon lie saw oilier olv
j'vis, lue the lirst, descending, and
in a sli irt time he was able to take iu
the wiioio situation.
Having selected a long, smooth
slope of t lie luouiita'n, where there
we;c no stones, the Indians had con
verted It into a sort of earthen tolog
?aa slide, and were utili.ing the frying-pans
as toboggans. Seat nir them.
oives in t lie pans, they grasped tho
handles v, Itli both hands: then, cross,
ing t b- r legs over their arms the
went spinning down the slide with
great rapidily. The Colonel let tin-in
li.nu the few nans that remained in
the storehouse, but did not order s
uew sup; ly.
An Arti.t Wllhiiut I rcoicrlc'tcs.
The celebrated French ati-t,
Pougu reau. in app "arance looks inure
like a prosperous hudncss in in than a
!T eat painter. He is a stout man
with a pi aant fac and lias non of
the eccentricities which ere gen "rally
ns-ociated with r nius. An e; rom-oii"
iile.i pievaiN tlitt the best, atti-ts
have iu iny p cu'i.tr m:inn ristns and
affect-a style of attire tiiif ring ma
terially from that worn by other per
sons. The fact is that many of th
best artKt iu I'.iris are anion.: thf
be-t dres ed in ti whom you inc. t and
on til 1 -dilcva "(Is and through fa res.
Yh n you sc.- an art it whose trou
or-, have w inkled at the knees and
who e sdoti. h hat Is so w li
worn that a tuft of hair e;n r
from a en vi -e, vou may com-lud
lb t he wou'd ilon a better suit if lit
h id o:i " a id j urclus' a clistc n!i!j.
(ilk hat if lie p--s l the ne e -arv
funds. I'oui;.b r u devotes two hour
a day twie" a w o' to ri i njj hint; tr
nt: l"fts. He will apiiioicli a student
aud Kaze at work for a mom nl..
If it pi uses him ho will t:i; him
lightly on the shoulder in a fri nd y
manner.
"Ca va 1 ien," he will say: 'That's
getting on."
Or p.'ihaps "l'as inal," which wou'd
answer to our ex pre sion, "Not to
bad!-'
When he is disp'cas d h will -.hni'j
hin should ts impatiently. "Ca ne
vas pas!" which is about equivalent
to telling th student .that he is an
intruder in the realm of art. Iiut he
is always jio'ite, a liable and kind in
manner, and is of course highly es
teemed, for his work is always larsj.'
and nol le, while as a draughtsman
he rivals that wonderful m ister, llu
hens. lie has but one private pupil.
Illi. abcth Carl ii'T, who has stu lied
with him lift -en years, and whos
pictures closelv resemble the tfreat
mister. Ii iitguer ail began life, in a
busin s house and pursued his artis
tic studies by attending drawing
s.-hool two hours a day at liordeaux.
His fellow students looked upon him
with suspicion on account of his busi
ness connections an 1 when he ga n 'd
th'! lirst prize a formal protest was
made against its being awarded him.
From that time his progress was rapid.
The high speed of ocean steamers
dejiends largely on -the huge 6ize ol
Hie vessels.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
fends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. Tho many, who live bet
tor than others and enjoy life more, with
lesj expenditure, by moro promptly
adapting the world's best products to
tho needs of physical being, will attest
tho value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in tho
rcmtt'.y, F-yrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to tho taste, the rcf resiling and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevel
nnd permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Ilowels without weak
enittg them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gist's in50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
' lo. only, whose name is printed on every
jacknge, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accent anj substitute if ouered. r
' The Past
Guarantees
The Future
The fact that Hood's Sarsaparilla haa
cured thousands of others is cer
tainly sufficient reason for belief
that it will cure you.
Lung and Liver Trouble,
fyspfiia, salt rlu-i.m, an uttnek of shingle?, nn.i
a jiovcri; roiih foiiijiitd me tnlve up work
a nuiMtii ami nil, r live ywiw f suitVrhi? neiirly
tHik awuy my hit-. ThVa 1 Untk. lliMni'g SursH
pirilUi, whit'h t tr-rl'l a vxirv. Thw nt-iKhUrs
lliinic it wry sirunne to m-s me at uork. ut,'iiiu.
The stn iir-'tn cvt-n ni by llootl's Sar.upnrilia
e;mt!cj ui tit it." Ikaac Abkk, Vieuua, N. J.
Hood's!$Cures
iiouU' liiu act easily, yet promptly.
.'l xnr-
SURE.
-urcs iougns. l-loarscncss, sore i nroat, s.nui,
'lioopinjr Couirh and Asthma. For Centum
t:oH it has no rival ; has cured thousands where
all others failed; will cure you if taken in time.
rioio Dy uruKgisis on a fruarantee. rorLame
Back or Chest, useSHII.OH'b i'LASTEK. 15ns.
HILOH'SCATARRH
tEMEDY.
Have you cai urn t Thl remedy is miaran
teed to cure you. 1'ricebOcu. iujoccor Ireu,
SAM CAUGHT A TARTAR.
A CruniUMr tVUiln? to Carry a Blessaffe to
the Lotver Itelons.
The Hev. Samuel Torter Jones will
e 1 hi invade the sinners swatups of
y. is-.issi; j). a.' iiii, says the Louis
t;io!n;-i caiocr.it. i ut when he re
turus be will not bs ajit to hunt up
Ttiotua-i i done or send out ambassa
dors re iiiestin his attendance at his
meetings.
Mr. lioone trave's for a Cincinnati
v. iiis .y hou e. He do"3 nut, believe
l.i rci.' ou any more than Mr. .lones
I elieves; in dudes but out of idle
ciitio-.iiy lie went to hear the Itev.
: aiiiiiel si i iiis p-alms when he was
in Misis-djijii imfore. Mr. Jones was
descanting upon tiio sins of men aud
w;mien in (.'eneraL fie Used his
irr.-iti lm itber and grindfathcrto illus
t.ale his poiu'.
"Mv crandf.ither," he said, ,lwas a
ri'bt mius 111:111. He walked in the
holy piths of rihteousnes , eschewed
all lrivolities of llesh, and conse
crated his soul lo God, and when he
died 1 a:u satirsll d the angels san
their sweetest soui;s and the saints
ro.oieed at bis entrance into the
j-ear v jrates of Heaven. Iiut my
1 ;:iih1.'uo: iier w.is a diiTereat p: ron.
She cared nothing for the church Dor
its teachings. Hie indulged in
W'ir'diy atf urs, tr ive up tier heart to
fashionable society sin, and when she
died I avi satisfied that she went
str.ii.b.w.iy to hell."
lice the preacher paused. His
restless eye passe 1 quickly frorc one
end of the ast pavilion to the other,
lie detcctt d t'-.o Cincinnati whisky
1! oiuiiier slowly making his way out
of the chdrclL If the e is anything
Mr. ..'ones hates worse than he decs
th- sicion keccr it is the man who
will atte upt 10 move in the audience
thr ii: the s. rv ces.
"Am!, mv brethren,'' said he.point
imi his .-tubtiy tl nsjor at the retreat
itu; drummer, "tuerc goes another
soul straightway to hell."
liootie tut ned his face slowly around
until be saw that this prophecy was
diiecte I at him. There was Intense
excitement in the b.ir pavilion, sud
denly he raised up his hand, and,
pointing to Mr. Jones calmly said:
'Well, old horsefly, have vou got
any message you want to seod to your
grandmother.-"
Sam Jotfes hesitated, and illus
trated the old saw that hn who hesi
tates is lost, for Itoone marched
slowly out of tho church, and the
joke was 0:1 Sam.
Why Xot t'ollect Seeds?
In these clays of stirnp, coin, 6hell,
mine al, plant, ;ind insect colle tors,
the writer h is often wondered why it
is that so few have turned their at
tention to making collectionsof seeds.
Tho Held, as it appears to me. Is one
of exceptional interest; exceptional
not merely because ot the work of
real merit that may be done therein,
but because it Is practically inex
haustible; because the materials are
very largely of su' h a nature as to be
cared for with a minimum amount of
la! or, and require but little space;
and because in many instances seeds
are themselves objects of great
beauty. There are few pursuits in
which greater latitude may be al
lowed, or greater opportunity is given
for display of individual energy and
mental scope. The amateur, whether
man or woman, boy or girl, business
man or teacher, cripple or Invalid,
may ea h and all lollect and find
ample room for so much or so little
study as he or she may choose to de
vote to it. One may collect only su: h
seeds as have in the liselves some
point of beautv, or arc of curious
shapes; may know them only by their
coninon or local names, or may take
up the pubject in a purely sclentiilc
spirit. Identifying a plant durine its
flowering stai;e and finally collecting
its seeds when mature, labe'ins theru
with both common and scientlSo
Games, date of flowering and seeding,
and laying away to form a part of
what in time may grow to be a col
lection of real value. Science.
A Deftertfd Spnulh Town.
An interesting d scovery wa3 re
cetitly made by ec!al Agent Horn of
the Interior l)eiartinent while trav
eling in Oklahoma through a crritory
that the f.jot of white man has
si ldom reached. In a wide canon
a nonir the mountains ho came across
the ruins of aa ancient walled city
that showed tnaoy evidences of Span
ish civilization. The Indian who
iruided him to the scene told him that
traditions related that men had come
there, built a town, and duir from
tho earth much precious metal, which
they melted into yellow bars and car
ried away with them to the south.
After awhile the metal became scarce
and many of them left, the remain
ing ones being finally masacred bv the
Indians. Xear the town were the
ruins of a large furnace, in which
j were tons upon tons of wood ashes,
and not far from the old furnace ap-
ietred to ba an old worked-out quartz
ad.
1 The last aanual circle of wood leaves
an accumulation of living cells upon
its surface, and toward midsummer
these cells Droduce an abundance of
new ones until the aggregate is eami
cient to form a new annual layer. This
process on common trees requires
about 6 weeks.
100 Reward. 100.
The render of this paper will P"
learn that there is at foastone dreaded disease
that science has been able to care in all iU
tairea.and thm It I atarrh. Halls Ca'ar.u
Cure is the only positive cure ktioivn O. the
medical f raternit y. Catarrh beii.B a ""'"
tional dis"as . nsimrrs a constitutional "'
ment. Hall s tatarrh t'nre is taken internaUi,
actinadirts-tly.) 1 tje biood anl mm ousei r- ,
faces ot the s-s:ein. there: titwirouiR iu
foun lation of t .1 d wasi, and giv. a 1 t he - pa
tientsirenutiib)' hn.ldintc up the constitution
and assisting niiure in aoum luim" ;
proprietors hav so macb fait h in its curative
fT-.r. .1.... .-n .nipu. Urn. Hitnilml llo lam I
for an case that it fads to cure, bend for list
of tust.inouUlfl. Addrvss
y. J. I'liKSKT & Co.,Toledo, O.
t"TySold by Druggists, i3c
A well-known geologist has com
puted the earth's age ou the basis of
experiment made on the effect of bent
and pressure on certain rocks, lie
concludes that the earth's nge as a
planet is 2 1,0 J3 ,000 years.
For Bronchi .1, Adlimatlc and Pul
monary t'oinplnlnls, Hrown'l Jlronefiial
'J'rorhcf' have r turntable curaUve properties.
ifrAd only in faxes.
I On many of the railways in Ger
many the practice of starting locomo
I tives with pus instead of wood has
: been adopted and proves economical.
j Is it eroniiiv to lavs a few cents buying a
cheap soap or strong washimt powder, and
dullart in ruined rottcl flotheaT If not. u-e
Dohbins' Fleetric Siap, white as snow, and as
pure. Ask four grocer for iu
! A German has invented a iwtper from ;
which any sort of ink may be erased
bv the use of a moist foonce, but the
Government has refused to grant him
patent on it.
Do not put off taking a medicine. Kuiner
ooslittle ailments, if neglected, will soon break:
up the system. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now,
to expel disease, give strength aud appetite.
Hood's Pills cure constipation by restoring
the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal.
j The Doric column was never less
than four and rarely more than six
diameters high, und the diameter at
the top was three-fourths that at the
bottom.
MornUurs liccchnin's Tills with a drink of
water. Beechaiu'a uo others. i cents a box.
Uew has a preference fr somecolors. ;
While a yellow board attracts dew, a red
re litii.t- nno l.oi.lu it. u-ill ho riArfnidlv I
dry.
C'Mitir KUIiM'y f'Hre f'r ;
Propsy, Grave!, .Diabetes, Bright', j
Heart." Urinary 1 Liver Diseases, Mar
vousneeH, Arc. Uure frtiumuteed. Sol
Arch Street, l'hiliui'a, SI a bottle, 6 for
tr-, or dru'uist. 10 JU cci tiaeates of :
cures. Try :t. 1
The ground In an open lot at Kast
Great l'lains, Conn., has been struck j
by lightning nine different times in
the past seven years.
rOSTAI.4X.lltK riMl 189.1
t'oiitalninliiK all the post nfllees arriis t a!
I'tiabetlcaliv. in St.ites and ( ouniles, itti ali
oilier nutters rel;it::ic t i p si oltli-e aff urs c ui
j he onleied from It. Sai.inoek. 1". . Box. H'-.
I'liihidelplihu l'.i. .No liusi ies man should be
I aithoutit. I"r.ce-'.ii pai ercovcrwitiiiiioulnly;
V-uciotn cover nun ir.ou'.iui.
Lightning recent I v incited the leiid
. frames out of the windows of a Mr.
' Hart, of Kochester X. Y.
Sleepless Nights, All Unstrung:.
East Grovolun-J, X. Y. May 13. J&O,
Dr. Kilmer & Co.. r:ntf'anit m. X. V.
Gentlemen: Last Mp.n-h I PuiTcrrl very bad
with hf-urt and kidney
tr;ul.h. After uinc
1 Vi Intt tic? of j eiu
Sti nipISn 1
(s'an to itupmve nnd I
now f.ei ar otber
I er.n. J ilo rot
littvc tinx- t rrii'lo
Pains In my Bark
and across my kidneys.
My fotxl dM9 nf)t dis
tress me, I haveacood
fr.i a.
ani'ti'e and sleep well ntKit.; soini'ihiiifr I
liave nut dne in a loiijr tiii:e. Now I t not
Imve tiiat tired dnitrtfintr fei'lin t.ittt J tied
to nave before takiiiK your inedk-iiM. After
Bitting down awhile and Renins on my f,vt 1
would have to stand and steady my-lf lafnre
I could place one foot lxf ore the other on ac
count of the pain across my back and kidneys.
Swamp-Root Cured L!?,
I was tronblrd with ronMlpatln n vrry
much, but your medicine bos rcpuluit-J 111
bowels which were in a bait condition. 1 wiii
williD'.y answer any une who will write to
me. Mrs. William Teter.
At Irusglt. SO rent and f 1 .00 SSze.
"loralula' ludi' to llMlUl" frv ConiuIt&Uon fr.
Ir. Kiiuicr it Co - UiuKuamton. N. Y.
4S
04
R. R.
ADWAY'S
READY RELIEF.
CVRES AND PREVENTS
Colds,
Coughs,
Sore Throat,
Hoarsen,
MlfTXrck,
Bronchitis,
Catarrh,
Headache,
Toothache,
Rhcnmallfm,
Neuralgia, Asthma,
Uralses, Sprains,
Quicker Than Any Known Remedy.
No matter how violent or exrruclntlnir the pntn the
lMifuniHtli. B-ilrl1ilMi. Inllrm. 1'riiuilitl. NVrvoui
Neuralgic, or proMti-atiM with 41Ikiis.' may miner,
R&D WAY'S READY RELIEF
Will Afford Instant Rs.
x i r. it.i ai.Ii i f nun io a mtiprtniiTui in tialr (
a tumbler of watr will tn a f.-w uiinut cure
4'rnmns, SMwms, ftur stoninrb, N.una. Vomltinit.
Hfartituni, NrvounPrW, si-(tiHnnH, Sick Hn.- 1
m-he, LUrrba, Coitc, Klatulency and all lnurnul
pair. i
Malaria In Its various formfinirf! and prevpntwl.
1 tin Is not a n tn-Hal iur'iit in the w-orM that
a III run- lvranrt Attn antl hM other rvni (ntOeil ,
by HAIVA Y's 'IUj suurkljr as K.VDWAY S '
li r.A U 1 KLLlbf.
Sold bt all DRt'oriitiH. Vrice 50 Cents.
DROPSY
TrfitH Free.
PunUlvfly Crniij)
with VeUthl
Reniwlfc-s. Have
crei m&ny thou.
nonncl hopeless. From first rtoee nymptonis rav
Mlyi1iMaM.Mr.und to en lHy at lea-st tvvo-thlnln of
hII yiu'tiMUiare r'inoved. KMK of teminioiilaH
nf Miirrii-nlml" rririK wi't KltKK.
TEH DATS TREATMENT JURWISHED FREE
by mail. Dr. H. H. GREEK It SOUS, Specialists.
Atlanta, Ga.
;exts make j:i TO VEll day with my
new patent bousohold rpceiuliieK. For 2-k"
will mail asa'td samples that tell quick at 6uc
Circular! free. Address
JOS. CLOWES, Rcedsriile, fa
tu'i'iVe' IT' '"' P R J 8 "WAVER, iuiilrri.it;
Consul.!, .ft. KinlirenuofphrrtclB..IHMwid.nil.
I I14.UJI.JIJ t
I Con.a motives and neonla
who have weak lucss or Asth
ma, shonld use PUo's Cure lor
Consumption. It has en red
thsiisaknds. It bas not Inlnr.
Hone. It is not bad to take.
It Is tne best conch syrup.
poiu everywnere. ttSe.
R.
sbSbS
ST. JACOBS OIL
IS THE MASTER CURE FOR
PflTWS and ACHES
ti VERY OLD CUN
Nearly Two Hundred Tear. Ago.
Dr J. W. Moore, of the nolekamp,
Grad tc Moore Instrument Corner,
Is the possessor of a rare old relic,
which Kas on exhibit ion In bis of
fice on Olive street, between Mnth
and Tenth. It is a fiintrlock rine
made in 1710. The rine is a cous
looking contrivance. Its smooth-bore
barrel is nearly three foot Ion nd is
encircled with rings which have been
dipped in gold, and the Kold p-ate
st llciings to the iron in P.J
oddest part of the gun is thocyl.nrter.
This Is composed of s.x chambers,
each about, half an inch deep, but
the cylinder does not revol ve auto
matically when the trigger is pulled
In order to move it around the hand
ler has to raise a sharp piece of Iron
that holds the stock to the barrel
through the rings previously described
and then with his hand twist the
cylinder into the desired position, li
is perhaps the first chambered gun
ever made, and is probably the origi
nal ftom which has evolved the Colt i
revolver and Winchester riile There
is no woodwork- about the gun except
the butt. It is made entirely of coarse
primitive-looking iron. Its weight is,
therefore, something stupendous
when compared to modern guns.
The loads were evidently placed in
the chambers without shells, and the
loading nui-t have been done with an
improvised ramrod, us no groove marks
the location of the ramrod, a9 is a.
wavs the case with old guns. Dr.
Moore purchased the ril'.e some time
aco from a Texan who had started to
C hicago with it to sell it to a curio
dealer collecting material for an ex
hibit at the World's Fair. The Texan
said he had excavated it from the
rulnsofan old Spanish fort on Hed
Uiver near Clarksville, Texas. The
figures "1710" aro sunk in the barrel
ju-t almve the hammer, aud these
figures are presumed to indicate the
yi-arin which the gun was made. Dr.
Moore prizes it very highly, as he
thinks it is the only one in existence,
nnli;s others b : buried in the ruined
Spanish fort where this was found,
though extensive excavation has
failed to reveal them. It must have
bei-n considered an exceptionally val
uable weapon ia its day and far in
advance of the guns of that time, as
tt w.;s evidently tlie ti.st repeating
ril!e ever made. Tlie butt is roughly
hewn out of black walnut and is
strongly riveted to the frame with
iron bolts. It reo.u'res t':e entire
strength of me ha: 1 to cock the
hammer, and it t-.:.ei a strong linger
to pull the trigjor. t':o:igli pcrhatw
the hardy pioneer who us.-d it to ki 1
mara l iiug Indians could handle the
hammer and the trigger as easily as
can the modern amateur sport-man
his delicately const! net ed breech
loader. If the gun shot a ball it
must have been lar-er thaniny bul
let now made, and if the m'sle of
death which wa-i fo-ccd thr.uig'i thi
long barrel was a load of .-.hot or slugs
it must have swept a broad territory,
for the bore of tlie barrel is so large
as to cause a gr-at scattering of the
contents of the load. Hie rebound
of the gun must have been something
terrific, and would have doubtlcs
ktiocked the shoulder out of p'ace oi
any but the most exierienc"d marks
man of the pioneer days. t. Loui?
G lo be- De m oc ra t.
t-lie Wen -led Him.
The roi'er's new buy threw his de
livery basket dn-.vti in tlie corner with
an iniured air and remarked that tlu
woman who liad just moved into Nr.
37, around the corner, was a regular
crank.
"flow do you mean?" asked vhe
grocer.
"First thins she asked me," said
tlie l:oy "was whether we had at:;'
nice fresh egfrs. They must M; very,
very fresh, sue said, lecau-c she
waited 'em to put in cake.
'1 told her e'us wasloubtful this
hot weal her, but we had some 'very,
very f .es!: egg plants, and how would
they do?
'She sail they wouldn't do at all;
an.l then she aked mc if we had any
corn that was as irreen as I was, aud
the ears as we'.l developed as mine.
'1 said, 'Ves'm.'
' 'Well.' she says, 'I want some for
dinner, so brinjj half a do.en as soon
as you can.'
'As soon as we can?' says I. 'Do
you want it canned?'
"She said she did not v.ant it
canned. Then she bcan to ask about
watermelons. 1 id we ha vc some that
was ripe? 1 told her 'Yes'm.'
"Was they on ice?
'Xu'm. they was on the sidewalk.
"AVould we put half of one on ice
and bring it arouud at 0 o'clock?
"We would.
"Would we have the seeds taken
out?
"With pleasure.
"All right. Dia we keep vichy
water in siphons?
" 'Yes'm.
"Was that on ice?
""o. lut 1 told her we'd put haU
a siphon on ice and bring it around
at ti o'clock with the bubbles taken
out. if she'd say the word.
"Then she said she guessed every
thing we hal around iiere was nice
and fresb, but there was such a tiling
m beitijj too fresh, and she believed
she'd try the other store, so I needn't
bother. Yes, sir, that woman's a
crank."
"Eddie," said tlie grocery man, as
he slowly rolled the white paper
around a pound of cheese, "my ne
phew wiii be here next week from
Germany, and I am going to give him
your job. Meanwhi'e I'll try to get
along without any little boy "
"You'll have to," said Eddie
"cause l'ra goin' to leave." Free
Tress.
th'!-fIE ?-lcs to think that all
they need in this world is relisloo
As a rule a man who has a ruus
lache he can twist, or whiskers he
:an stroke, is three times as lon
Making up his mind as one who
asa U
The idea that this earth is slowly
drying up has quite a set back by "it
recent announcement of the hydro
jrraphic engineers that tha Gulf of
ta U5Q." uue 1001 n,gacr thftQ lt -s
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rvir Invent I for Fanner. Mlner, R. R.
band and other. The outer or tap 1 en
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In 1886, my oa, suttered very much from Canes:
of the mouth, fly advice of physiciana, an op
eration w performed, extending from the jaw
bone, which they sc(l
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S. S. S.; after seven botts had been taken
the cancer dis- ap; eared enti:-
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return, and I ,1-,T V u v
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V !' -A It mr-rmhny ihrff tiin 'a
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i wit q dar3, Arruwrotn or
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It li delicioua, Doarijhirjg. and AfiiI.T
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ra. t. rznz ?073ato's
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uiontlis, n-itic it every dav. Also I'nudre SuM ,
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KKKI T. li IK I N's. Irop..S7(reat JonesHt N Y
r or -title brail Iruckrists and Fatirr (ioods Dealers
thmtijchntn the V. j.. CHuadas. and nrniw.
" Hewareof Rn in- -UlmiM. $ini Reward foi
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ft Ana lwder and racked Id a ran
with removaMa lid, the contents
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