TO ANOTHER ONE.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches on the Sub.
Jcci, Duty of the One With
Single Talent.
Try to Mtk ii Accurate Estimate of Yeuraell
-The Valee of Sympathy.
ICoprrlrht 1M.1
WARmxoToit, D. C.-Thii h a discourse
by Dr. Talmage for those given to de
preciate themselves and who have an idea
that their best attempts amount to lit
tie or nothing; text, Matthew xxv, 13,
"To another one."
Kxpel first from this parable ot the
talent the word "usury. It ought to
have been translated "interest." "Usury"
is finding a man in a tight place and com
pelling him to pay an unreasonable 'sum
to get out. 'Interest" is a righteous pay
ment for the use of money. When the
capitalist of this parable went off home,
he gave to his stewards certain sums of
money, wishing to have them profitably
invested. Change also your idea aa to
the value of one talent. You remember
the capitalist gave to one of his men for
business puriioses live talents, to another
two, to another one. What a small amount
to last, you think, and how could he be
expected to do anything with only one
talent? I have to tell you that one talent
was about 7200, so that when my text
says, "To another one," it implies that
those who have the least have much
We bother ourselves a great deal about
those Who are highly gifted or have large
financial resources or exalted ofucial posi
tion or wide reaching opportunity. Wo
are anxious that their wealth, their elo
quence, their wit, be employed on the
right suie. One of them makes a mis
take, and we say, "What an awful disas
ter. When one of them devotes all his
great ability to useful purposes, we cele
brate it, we enlarge upon it, we speak of
it as something for gratitude to God.
Meanwhile we give no time at all to con
sider what people are doing with their
one talent, not realizing that ten people
of one talent ench are quite as important
as one man with ten talents. In the one
case the advantage or opportunity is con
centrated in a single personality, while
in another it is divided among ten in
dividuals. ow, what we waut to do in
this sermon is to waken people of only
one talent to appreciation of their duty.
Only a few people have five talents or ten
talents, while millions have one. My short
text is like a galvanic shock, "To another
one.
The most difficult thing in the world is
to muke an accurate estimate of ourselves.
Our friends value us too high, our ene
mies too low. To find out what we are
worth morally and mentally is almost
impossible. We are apt to measure our
selves by those around us, but this in
not fair, as they may be very brilliant
or very dull, very good or very bad. In
deed there are no human scales that can
tell our exact moral and mental weight,
nor is there a standard by which we can
measure our exact intellectual height, so
the hardest thing to do is to calculate our
real stature or heft. But it will he no
evidence of egotism in any of us if we
say that we have at least one talent.
hat is it and, finding what it is, what
use shall we make of it? The most of
the people, finding that they have only
one talent, do as the man spoken of in
the parable, they hide it. But if all of
the people who have one talent brought it
out for use before this century is half past
and correspondents begin to write at the
head of their letters li)M, the earth would
be one of the outskirts of heaven. I ask
you again, What is your one talent?
Is it a cheerful look? Carry that look
wherever' you go. It must come from a
cheerful heart. It is not that inane smile
which we sometimes see which is an irri
tation. In other words, it must be a
light within us so bright that it illumines
eye, check, nostril and mouth. Let ten
men who are accustomed to walking a
certain street every day resolve upon a
cheerful countenance as a result of a
cheerful heart, and the influence of such
a facial irrodiation would be felt not only
in that street, but throughout the town.
Cheerfulness is catching. But a cheerful
look is exceptional. Examine the first
twenty faces that you meet going through
I ennsylvania avenue or Chestnut street
or Broadway or State street or La Salle
street or Euclid avenue, and nineteen, out
of the twenty faces have either an anxious
or a vacant look. Here is a missionary
work for those who have trouble. Arm
yourself with gospel comfort. Let the God
who comforted Alary and Martha at the
loss of their brother, the God who soothed
Abraham at the losa of Sarah and the God
of David, who consoled bis bereft spirit
at the loss of his boy by saying, "I shall
go to him;" the God who filled St. John
with doxology when an exile on barren
Fatmos and the God who has given hap
piness to thousands of the bankrupted
and persecuted, tilling them with heavenly
riches which were more than the earthly
advantages that are wiped out let that
God help them. If He takes full pos
session of your nature, then you will go
down the street a benediction to all who
see you, and those who are in the tough
places of life and are run upon and belied
and had their homes destroyed, will say:
"If that man can be nappy, 'I can be hap
py. He has been through troubles as big
as mine, and he goes down1 the street with
a face in every lineament of which there
are Joy and peaco and heaven. What am
I groaning about? From the same place
that man got his cheerfulness I can get
mine. 'Why are thou cast down, 0 my
oul, and why art thou disquieted within
me? Hope thou in God, for I shall ye
praise Him who is the health of my coun
tenance aud my God.' "
Again, J your talent that of wit or
humor? Use it for God. Much of the
world's wit is damaging. Most of satire
has a stint in it Ain.H n4 ..nr.;....,,.
yitrioli. In order to say smart thinm
. w-tav- vw BIU.I b tUIUKS
how many will sacrifice the feelinas of
a! J. lie sword they carry is keen, and
viucm. me swum Liiey carry is Keen, ana
It rs employed to thrust and lacerate. But
few ratn In all Hie world and in all the
yuurcucB reauze inai u wic is oestowea 1C
is given them for useful, for improving, for
healthful purposes. If we all had more of
it and knew how to use it aright, how
much it would improve our Christian con
versation and prayer meeting talk and ser
mon! Hubert South and Rowland Hill
and Jeremy Taylor and Dean Swift and
Lorenso Dow aud George Whiteiield used
their wit and their humor to gather great
audiences and then lead them into the
kingdom of God, Frivolity is repulsive in
religious discussion, but 1 like the humor
of job when be said to his msoient crit
ics, "No doubt but ye are the people, and
wisdom shall die with you," and 1 like the
humor of the prophet Elijah, who told the
Baalites to pray louder, as their god waa
out hunting or cn an excurion or in
such loud conversation that he could not
hear them. I like the sarcasm of Christ
when He toid .the self-righteous Phari
sees that they were so good they needed
no help. "The whole need nut a nhiai
ciun, but they that are aick," or when in
mirthful hyperbole He arra gns the hypo
critical teacher of Hia day who were so
mi uiuiui- about utile tiling ana cere-
uvuv uik imngt, saying, xe uunti
guides that strain at a gnat and swallow
uuu biie jtiuie is uii aomze wun
epigram, words surprisingly put and
phraseology that must have made the au
diences of Paul and Christ nudge each
other and exchange glances and smile and
then appropriate the tremendous truths of
ttie gospel. There are some evils you can
laugh down easier than you can preach
down. The question is always being asked,
Why do not more people go to church,
prayer meeting and other religious meet
ings? I will tell you. Wo of the pulpit
and the pew are so dull t,y cannot stand
it. But when we ask why people do not
go to church we ask a misleading quea
tion. Mrre people go now to church than
ever in the world's history, and the rea
son is in ail our denominations there ia ft
new race of ministers stepping into the
Pipits which are not the apostU of hum
arum. Bure enough, we want in the
rd, army the heavy artillery, but wo
fni.. ? ?,or ,meu w,,- Bums,
weTt n.,V G.t,"!r. tok musks, and
ThootinV A " T n "0nJ do a little
cber. ,Th'ff",r,nt, from o'ner sol
PtiS ,:,mcS, of 0od " '
UleTt CH.'i'' u ,hink ' '
went. But it u the mightiest of talento"
Jto you know that this one talent will
fetch the world back to Ood? Do you know
it is the mightiest talent of the high
heavens? Do you know that it is the one
talent chiefly employed by all the nneela
of God when they descend to our world
the talent of persuasion?
no yon realise that the romrh lumber
lifted into a cross on the hill back of
Jerusalem was in persuasion aa well as
sacrifice ? That is the only, absolutely the
only, persuasion that will ever induce the
human race to atop its march toward the
city of destruction and wheel around and
start for the city of light. Now may the
lvord this moment show each one of ua
that to a greater' or lesa extent we have
one talent of pecmiasion and impel us to
the right use of it.
You say you cannot preach a sermon,
but rannot you persuade some one to go
and hear aermon? You say you cannot
Jing. but cannot yon persuade some one
to go and hear the choir chant on Christ
mas or Easter morning? Bend hunch of
flowers to that invalid in the hospital,
with a message about the land where the
inhabitants never say, "I am sick"
There is child of the street.' Invite
mm into the mission school. There ia a
man who has lost his fortune in specula
tion. Instead of jeering at hia fall go and
tell hirn of nchrs that never take wings
and fly away. Buckle on that one talent
of rwmiasion, O man, O woman, and
you will do a work that heaven will cole
bra te 10,000 years.
Among the 114,000 words of Noah Web
ster s vocabulnrv and the thousands of
words since then added to our English
vocabulary thcro is one outmastering
word the power of which cannot be es
timated, and it reaches so far up and so
far down, and that is the word "come."
It Iins drawn more people away from the
wrong and toward the right than any
word I now think of. It has at times
crowded all the twelve gates of heaven
with freh arrivals. It will yet. rob the
path of death of the last pedestrians. ..It
will vet chime so loudly ond gladly that
all the toiling bells of sorrow wilU.be
drowned with the music. It is piled up in
the Bible's climax and peroration, "Arid
the spirit and the bride say come, and
let him that hcarcth say come, and let
him that ia athirst come." Have it on the
point of your pen, have it on the tip of
your tongue. Monosyllables are mightier
than polysyllables, and that word "come"
is the mightiest of monosyllables. Shakna
penre says of one of his characters, "Sbe
speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
We may say of others, they speak word?!
which nrc of balm and music, are light and
life. Master one of those words, harness
one of these words, project one of those
words, prove the full plentitude and pow
er of one of those words.
David Garrick, the dramatist, said he
would give 100 guineas if he could say
"oh" as George Whitefield said it. What
might we not give if only we could say
come" as Jesus said it? Some one has
said that syllables govern the world, and
I think that one syllable might save -the
world. But I cannot particularise. What
ever be your one talent, cultivate it.
Once fully realize that you have some
thing with which to enhance heaven vand
take hold Of the eternities, and it will
add a new bank of keys to the music of
your soid. You are ordained to some kind
of work by the laying on of the hands of
tba Lord God Almighty.
If you rannot do anything else, go
around and feel sorry lor somebody. When
some one asked, "What ia the secret oj
William Wilherforce'a power?" the an
swer waa, "His power of sympathy." And
there are 10,000,000 people who have the
same qualification if they only knew it.
Sympathy! If you cannot restore the
child to that bereft parent or, the fortune
to that bankrupt financier or health to
that confirmed invalid or an honorable
name to that wrecked character, you can
at least feel sorry for the misfortune or
the bereavement or the suffering.
Sympathy! If you have not the means
to do anything else, go and Sit down and
cry with them. That is the way Christ
(lid when He went out to the desolated
home in Bethany and the sisters told
their snd story. He cried with them. Oh,
cultivate that one talent Of sympathy!
After the resurrection day and all heav
en is made up. resurrected bodies .ioined to
ransomed souls, and the gates which were
so long open are shut, there may be some
day when all the redeemed may pass in
review before the great white throne. If
so. I think the hosts .passing before the
King will move in different divisions.
With the first division will pass the mighty
ones of earth who were as good and use
ful as they were great. In this division
will pass before the throne all the Martin
Lathers, the John Knoxes, the Wesley,
the Richard Cecils, the Miltons, the
Chrysostoms, the Herchells, the Lenoxes,
the George Pcahodys, the Abbott Law
rences and all the consecrated Christian
men and women who were great in litera
ture, in law, in medicine, in philosophy,
in commerce. Their genius never spoiled
them. They were as humble as they
were gifted or opulent. They were great
on earth, and now they are great in heav
en. Their surpassing and magnificent tal
ents were all used for the world's better
ment. As they pass in review before the
King on the great white throne to higher
and higher rewards it makea me think of
the parable of the talents, "To another
ten. I stand and watch the other divi
sions as they go by, division after divi
sion, until the largest of all the divisions
comes in sight. It ia a hundred to oise, a
thousand to one, ten thousand to one,
larger than the other divisions. It is
made up of men who never did anything
but support their families and give what
ever of their limited means thav could
spare for the relief of poverty and aick
nesa and the salvation of the world, moth
ers who took good care of children by
example and precept starting them on the
road to hcav.n, millions of Sabbath-school
teachers who sacrificed an afternoon's
siesta for the listening class of young im
mortals, women who declined the making
of homea for themselves that they might
take care of father and mother in the
weaknesses of old age, ministers of the
gospel who on niggardly stipend preached
in the backwood meeting houses, souls
who for long years did nothing but suf
fer, yet suffered with so much cheerful pa
tience that it became a helpful lesson to
all who heard of it; those who served
God faithfully all their lives and whose
name never but once appeared in print,
and that time in the three lines of the
death column which some survivor paid
for, sailors who perished in tho storm
while trying to get life line out to the
drowning, persecuted and tried souls who
endured without complaint malignity and
abuse, those who had only ordinary equip
ment for body snd ordinary endowment
of intellect, yet devoted all they had to
holy purposes and spiritual achievement.
As I see this, the largest of all the divi
sions, from all lands and from all ages,
pass in review before the King on the
great white throne I am reminded of the
wonderful parable of the talents and
more especially of my text, "To another
one." i
' newsy cleaning;:.
Tho Salvation Army will cciallb
a colony In Florida. ,
The first stock oschnnijo In S;t:;:i
bus just becu opened at Tomsk.
It Is proposed to hold a South Am:tl
cr.n exhibition In Loudon next yenr.
A bill to suppress Juvenile snioUins
la to be introduced in the Inlo of Mun.
Most of Chicago's big office building:
li.ivu passed Into the bunds of n trust.
Coulrollcr Color reports (lint (he not
bonded debt tl Gioato:1 Is'cw Yo.k ia
$303,081,5-18.
A tvouuiu In Otlarn, Kirt., lm of
fered to pn? fiooa i it v.oo: cf ti-o ex
istence of God.
Poslaee stamps Issued for tho Trnci
vaal will bo tho fi4jt to bear Oo Lead
of Edward VII.
The People'a Om Co:nr.iny, cf Chi
cago, la to pay tho city three and a
half per cent, of Ha grot receipts.,
(Spending per year for tliree Fl?o
Deportments: New Yo:k City, f?2,500,
000; Chicago, 1.500,000; Boston,
200,000. .
"The nasties cf AffiicuUr.ro" la the.
title of a work of which lOO.CJO copies
ore to le distributed ft:j auiouj Mexi
can farmers.
COMMERCIAL REVIEW.
Ocaeral Trade Conditions.
New York, (special) Bradstreet's
ays "The (teneral situation is still favor
ble, the primary encouraging feature be
ing the fine outlook for the country's
crop. General distribution, retarded
hitherto by the backward spring, has
been stimulated by warm, sunny
weather.
"Reports as to quiet trade in iron and
steel come from the East, where the de
mand for pig iron is of a hand-to-mouth
character.
"The boot and shoe and allied trades
note considerable activity in manufac
turing lines, the Eastern shoe shipments
have again exceeded the 100,000 case
mark, and the total for the season is
now nearly 30,000 cases ahead ol last
year.
"Such unanimity as to good crop re
ports has rarely been seen at this per
iod of the year. Much was made in
speculative grain circles of dry weather
at the Northwest, but recent rains have
placed that section in a favorable con
dition as regards the spring wheat.
From the winter wheat belt reports con
tinue optimistic, and especially favora
ble advices being received from Kansas.
"The feature of the week in textiles
is a perceptible improvement in the tone
of most cotton goods, which are in
rather better demand at large Ea.stern
markets. This, of course, docs not ap
ply to the print cloths situation, which
is one ot excessive stocks, curtailed pro
duction and of goods selling below cost
in many instances. Export shipments
of cotton goods are heavy, although
new business is lighter.
"Wheat (including flour) shipments
for the week aggregate 4796,084 bush
els, against ,1.084.968 bushels corrected
last week, 3,608.968 bushels in the cor
responding week of 1900, .1.108.319
bushels in 1809, and 4..1o9,i,i3 bushels in
1898. Fcoin July I to date wheat ex
ports arc 190.048.66j bushels, against
178.394,566 bushels last season and 209,
89S.175 bushels in 1898-1899.
"Corn exports for the week aggre
gate 2,204.902 bushels, against 2.704,594
bushels corrected last week, 4,374.145
bushels in this week a year ago. 3.845,
818 bushels in 1899, and $164,451 bush
els in 1898. From Jnry 1 to date corn
exports are 163.584.763 bushels, against
85,653.354 bushels last season and 151,
879,033 bushels in 1898-1899."
LATEST QUOTATIONS.
Flour. Best Tatcnt, $4.5034.75; High
Grade Extra, $4.0034.25; Minnesota
bakers. $2.9033.25.
Wheat. New York, No, red. 79a
82c; Philadelphia. No. 2 red, 78379c;
Baltimore, 78a8o-c.
' Corn. New York, No. 2, 49l4e;
Philadelphia, No. a, 47J4a48c; Balti
more, No. 2, 5oa5lVic.
Oats. New York, No. 2. 33c; Phila
delphia No. 2 white, 34'ja35c; Balti
more, No. 2 white, 33Vi334C.
Rye. New York, No. 2, 61c; Phila
delphia, No. 2, 60c; Baltimore, No. 2,
5&a59c.
Hay. No. I timothy, $17.00; No. 2
timothy, $16.50; No. 3 timothy, $15.50
a 16.00. No. I clover, mixed, $15,503
16.00; No. 2 clover, mixed, $14.00:115.00;
No. 1 clover, $14.50; No. 2 clov:r,
$i3.ooai4.oo.
Greer. Fruits and Vegetables. On
ions spring, per 100 bunches, 6oa8oc;
do, new, Bermuda, per1 crate, $i.25a
I.40; do Egyptian, per sack, $2.2532.40;
Asparagus, Norfolk, per dozen, No. I,
$i.5oa2.oo; do, Norfolk, per dozen, sec
onds, $t.ooai.25; do, Eastern Shore Md.
per dozen, prime $1.2531.50. Csbbsge,
Charleston and North Carolina, per
crate, 65385c; do, Norfolk, per bbl, 75a
90c. Celery, Florida, per crate. $1,503
a.50. Apples, $2.0034.25. Or3ngcs, $2.00
83.00. Strawberries, per quart, 5niic.
Potatoes. We quote: White, Mary
land and Pennsylvania primes, per bus,
5oa55c; do, New York prime, per bus,
58a6oc; do, Michigan and Ohio, per
bus, 55a6oc; do, new, Florida, per bbl,
No. 1, $3.5034.50; do, do, do, per bbl,
No. 2, $2.0033.00; do, do, Charleston,
per bbl. No. 1, $3.5035.00; do, do, do,
per bbl, No. 2, $2.ooa3.oo. Sweets
Maryland and Virginia, kiln dried, per
bbl, $2.2532.50; do, North Carolina, per
bbl, prime, $2.5033.00; do, (ancy bright
Jerseys, per bbl, $2.5033.00.
Beans and Peas. VVc quote: New
York marrow, choice hand picked, $2.30
32.35; do do medium do do, 52.20a2.25;
do do pea, do do, $2.l5a2.20. Blackeye
peas, per bushel, choice new, $1,753
1.80. Black peas, per bushel, choice
new, $1.70. Green pess, per bushel
$1.25. Nearby white beans, hand pick
ed, per bushel, $1.5032.00. Beans, im
ported, per bushel, $i.ooa2.oo.
Butter. Creamery, 15319c; factory,
Iiai3c; imitation creamery, 13317c;
Slate dairy, 15318c.
Cheese. Fancy, large, colored, loSc;
fancy, large, white, loaiojc; fancy,
small, colored, uc; fancy, small,
white, ii'4c.
Eggs. State and Pennsylvania, 12a
13c; Southern, nai2c; Western stor
age. 13c.
Provisions. The market is firm.
Jobbing prices: Bulk shoulders, 8a8'4c;
do short ribs, p54c; do clesr sides, gc;
bacon rib sides, 10c; do clear sides,
io!4c; bacon shoulders, gc. Fat backs,
3'iC. Sugar cured breasts. 11 'ic; sugar
cured shoulders, 9c. Hams Small,
ii'Ac; large, 11c; smoked skinned hams,
12'Ac; picnic hams, 84c. Lard Best
refined, pure, in tierces, 9!4c; in tubs,
)'3c per lb. Mess Pork, per bbl, $16.00.
Hides. Quote: Green S3ltcd, 6'ic;
do do, dsmsged, 6c; do do. Southern,
5c; green, 6c; do. damaged, 5Jc; dry
flint, 13c; do do, damaged, 11c; dry.
salted, nc; do do, damaged, ioaio!-c;
dry calf, 10c; dry glue, 6'jc. Bull
hides, per lb, green, 5! ja6c; do do, per
lb, green salted, 6c. Goatskin, I.sa25c
Calfskins, green salted, 60380c. Sheep
skins, 60375c. Spring lambskins, 30a
40c
Live Poultry. Market is steady.
Quote: Hens, 10c; old roosters, each,
25330c; spring chickens, l8a25c; winter
do, 2 to 2jlbs, i6ai8c. Ducks, 839c.
Geese, apiece, joa40c.
Live Stock.
East Liberty, Pa. Cattle steady; ex
tra. $57ci5-S5: prime, $55ca5.6s; good.
$5'.Vas.40. Hogs lower; prime heavies
and best mediums. $5 9235.95 ; heavy
Yorkers, $5.9035.92'; light do, $5,853"
5.90; pigs, $S.75a5-85; skips, $475:5.25;
roughs, $4.0035.50. Sheep slow; best
wethers, $4.3534.40,
Chicago, 111. Cattle S:cii s a?tive;
good to prime steers, $5.30116.00; poor
to medium, $4.2035.20; cow.t. $2coai7j;
heifers. $2.9oa4.oo; caK't . i.etive, $4.25
ab.co; Texas fed steers, $4 2535.40. .
' LABOR AND INDUSTRY
We send coal to Japan. ! '
Mexico hag 136 cotton mills.
German army includes dentists.' '
Uncle Sam leads in fruit growing.
There is now a locomotive trust.
Italy has 300 co-operative societies.
Japan ha 3 thousands of unionists.
China's Empress has 3000 dresses.
New York has a Chinese ncwsiaper.
Minneapolis has a servant girls'
union.
London boasts 2700 crossing sweep
ers. '
Women insurance gents arc multi
plying. 1,
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A Golden Rale Horse Advertisement.
A gentleman who has a Christian
spirit and a horse for "sale advertises as
follows in a Minnesota paper:
We have a good family driving horse
ior sale, providing you carry insurance.
He is not over-particular as to feed.
In fact, he prefers our neighbors' hay
stacks and corncribs to our own.
We feed him whenever we can catch
him, which is seldom.
He is partly gentle. The other parts
are not, and you must govern yourself
accordingly.
VVc will throw in the derrick and tele
graph pole combination which we use
to hitch him tip with.
If you are fond of driving we would
advise you to engage a cowboy that
owns a fast horse to do your driving,
and be sure and get on top of the barn
before he begins to drive the horse.
For price and coroner's address ap
ply to the owner.
rnftsan'n Hurry.
James J. Coogan. dc facto president
of the borough of Manhsttan, recently
applied to a Harlem horse dealer to
purchase a trotter. The dealer brought
out a handsome bay horse.
"I'll guarantee that animal to go in
three minutes easy," said the dealer.
Coogsn understood the man to mean
that the horse could go a mile in throe
minutes and drove the animal up to the
Speedway to try him.
"1 found he was a slow plug and could
not trot." said the friend of Croker in
telling the story. "I drove back to the
stable.
" 'Here, you,' I said to the dealer,
'you told me this horse could go in
three minutes! It took him four by
the watch.'
" 'Well, you must have been in a
of a hurry if you coudn't wait a minute,'
the dealer replied."
Coogan did not buy the horse.
Neofletl Farther Instructions.
Prison Warden It's just been found
out that you didn't commit that crime
you've been in for all these years, and so
the Governor has pardoned you.
Innocent Man Urn! pardoned, am I?
Prison Warden Y-e-s; but don't go
vet. I'll have to telegraph for further
instructions.
Innocent Man What about?
Prison Warden Seems to me that,
considcrin' you hadn't any business
here, you ought to pay the State for
your board.
Mark Twain Chlitsd.
The president of the Chicago Press
Club went to New York for the pur
pose of inducing Mark Twain to come
there to deliver a lecture for the benefit
of the C. P. C. Mr. Clemens was up in
the mountains of New York when the
Chicago man arrived. The latter pa
tiently awaited the return of the humor
ist and succeeded in meeting Mr.
Clemens in his study at a rather late
hour. According to the Chicagoan,
Mr. Clemens was not fsvorsbly inclin
ed. Indeed, he was not in one of his
happy moods.
"I can't go to Chicago; I won't go."
he said in an underscored voice. The
Chicago man intimated that the Press
Club would be willing to pay any sum
which Mr. Clements saw fit to name.
"That has nothing to do with it," Mr.
Clemens replied. "I wouldn't go to
Chicago for $io,ood, nor anywhere else.
Now, that settles it. I am going to
have some rest."
At that, the voice of a young person,
the .Chicago man says it was a girl's
voice, was heard from the top of a
stairwsy. "Don't get excited," ssid the
voice.,
Mr. Clemens turned his face in the
direction of the stairway and scowled.
"You go to bed." he thundered. Thcrt
turning to the Chicagoan he said in a
voice almost musical: "Perhaps I ni3y
come some other time not now."
Then he turned his face in the direc
tion of the stairway again and listened.
There was a subdued giggle at the top.
And the face of the grizzled humorist
became radiant.
Jut to He Quarrelling,
"Edgsr and I qusrrel all the time
about automobiles; he S3ys he won't
have a horse, and I say 1 won't have
anything else."
"So you are going to get a convey
ance of some kind?"
"Oh. goodness, no; half the time wc
can't scrape up street car fare."
'Xbirtv minntos is ail the time required to
dyo with ruTSAit Fadeless Dyes, tola by
ail druggists
Holland has nine miles of cnnnl for every
100 square miles of surface. 2700 miles in
'
A man's conscience often depends upon
the condition of his liver.
AV Yonr lenr for Allen's Foot-Tits.
A powder to shake into yonr shoes : rests thi
tret. Cures Corns, Buniom, Swollon, Rore,
Hot, Callous. Achinir. Hwcatiiic Feot and In
prowine; Nails. Allen's Foot-Eiuo makes new
or tifjht shoes easy. At all drmrfcist ant
shoo stores. 25 cts.' Pamplo mniled FREE.
Address Allen 8. Olmsted. Leltoy, K. Y.
The purest Chinese is spoken at Nankin,
and is culled "tho language of the manda
rins." Ilnll's Cntarrh Curl is n liquid and Is taken
fn'eninll;.-, nnd uct directly on the blood mid
nmoou" Kurfacos o. tho systoui. Writo for tog
timouliilo, free. lUnnu'ucturod by
F. J. Ciikney & Co., Toledo, O.
Chinamen plow with u crooked stick
with a steel point fastened to it. The
motive power in a water buffalo.
FITS permanently cured. No fit or nsrvoiu
ness after first riny! w of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Hestorar. 92 trial bottle and treatise froo
Dr. It. U. Kmxs, Ltd.. 31 ArchHt.. l'hilu., Ta.
The lai'iicst enclosure for deer is said to
1 the Koynl l'uik in Copenhagen, Den-
bo
man;
-4200 acres.
Mr. Window's Ponthiup; fyrnp forchildren
(nothing, soften thn pirns, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, euros wind colic. 25c a bottle.
A wren lives three years, a coldGnch
fifteen ami a sparrow as much as forty.
1 do not believe Piso's Cnro for Consump
tion has an equal fur eoughs and colds. Joiix
F. Boteb, Trinity Springs, Jnd., Fob. 15, 1900.
Cold was first discovered in California
in 183.
Ills Khsve.
He was one of these smooth-faced
young men who chew gum because it's
ladylike and smoke cigarettes because
it's manly. He couldn't have stood un
der the mistletoe in a shirtwaist for five
minutes with tempting something with
a deep bass voice and whiskers to me
ander that wav.
"Hair cut?'r asked the bsrbcr, as he
threw his hesd back on the rest.
"Naw, course not," indignantly . re
plied the customer. "Can't you see I
want a shave?"
The barber heaved a weary sigh as
he lathered the face, which looked like
an advertisement for somebody's com
plexion balm. Then he picked up a
neck razor, whipped it over the strop
once 3iid scraped the lather off with the
back of the instrument.
"By Jove, a shave makes a man
feel better!" ejaculated the smooth-faced
one, rubbing his hand gently over his
skin.
"That's the fourth one o' them things
to-day," growled the barber.
Woman's Legal Position.
Thus in New York State, for In
stance, a woman has a larger control of
her real estate than her husband has of
his. She. if she likes, may make out a
will whereby she cuts him off or ignores
him entirely, whereas he cannot sell,
mortgage, will, or alienate any of his
real property without her consent in
writing, and in some instances under
seal. He must reserve to her what is
commonly known as her dower right or
n life interest in one-third of all his
real estate possessed or acquired by
him during their married life. It is
thus impossible for him to alienate his
real property without his wife joining
in the deed to bar her dower. Thus
does the law protect the woman in the
enjoyment oti her property rights.
Popular If Sot rrofltshte.
"I see Indianapolis is getting some
new banks." said the Chicago man.
"Yes." answered the Indianapolis
man, "but if they want to become really
popular they will cut loose from the old
plan of making a fellow give security
when he wants .to borrow a little
money."
GrayHair
"l have used Ayer'i Hair Vigor
for over thirty yean. It has kept
my scalp free from dandruff and
hat prevented my hair from turn
ing gray." Mrs. F. A. Soule,
Billings, Mont.
There is this peculiar
thing about Ayer's Hair
Vigor it is a hair food,
not a dye. Your hair does
not suddenly turn black,
look dead and lifeless.
But gradually the old color
comes back, all the rich,
dark color it used to have.
The hair stops falling, too.
$1.00 a bottls. All JrsirJfls.
DYSPEPSIA
ylelda to nature)' modlolne.
4
It entitlf mrrm lrpptia rd all ftnmarh.
uvpr. kiunpyunci bow) diaorrier. An on
rivalled aperient and IflXMttret InrliroratM
arid tnnf-a lite whn nyntm. A naturnl
win!-mine oiviifa. muiclnl Tuum, eou
(iMiuiwu iu maun 11 nmr
and chair to bMtla,
hip and ii. A lot.
bottle m tvhwI tn 2 ffallona4
oi tinrnrt(lcne(l water.
Bmrk on very txtiiia, ,"aT
CRAB ORCHARD WATER CO.. Louisville. Kt.
If your dmpglut cannot unnpljr you,
end ua one dollar And we will expreaa
you a bottle. Be sure and eWe the name
Of your nearrat exprotn office. Addreaa,
J. C.AYER CO., Lowell, Haaa.
jffil'.Virr.lThompson't Eyt Walir
AGENTS WJK?
Brohard Sash Lock and
Brohard Door Holdir
AtiT worker averywhera can earn hia; mrrner;
mwats a niadjr demand for our pood. H Ample
1Mb lock, witli iri -n, torm. etc., free for 3c ii&uip
tor poaUtfe. Till-: liltOIIAKO 4 O..
Htatlon "O," A'UiiaUelpli.o.,
WILLS PILLS BIGGEST OFFER EVER MADE.
For only IO Ont we win Bond to any P. O. 1
drt(t, It) lUys' trttatiueiit of the heit ltiMtcine, on
earth, and put you on the track how to muke .Hon
it rlRM at vniir limn. AMrHii ell orlM to The
It. It. Will llrdlrlir (ompnnv, -it IK I !..
hctli!,, lliitfiTNtoivn, MA. Ilraurh Ollloeai
KUIudlnnn Ave.. WumIiIiih iuii, , C.
SRTFJ32J3eT?Sz
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bUHtS rrttHt ALL tl!t MIU. I
CouKh tirruD. Tamea Guod. Use I
intlmo. H"ln hy rtruirBi.tn.
"The ftanre tliat made Wrmt Point fataena."
MclLHENNY'S TABASCO.
?BW DiaCOTOKTt ttmm
Qutflk relief and eurse voma
nonlaU end 10 dara treetmeo
eRJLSM QMS. Boa B, AtUatft,
DROPSY
eeeei. Bou of laeti mottle.
Vree. Dr. M. a.
UsECERTAinS'CUBE.
IT PAYS
TO ADVKHTISB IH
Tills rAftK.
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A LUXURY WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL!
Ono Hundred Tears
Is a Inng timo, but Crab Orcbnnl Water has
boon in uso for that length of time, and each
jrer.r adds to it) reputation. It is no artificial
compound. It is prepared in Nature's labor
atory rs a certain remedy for llyspcpeia and
Cum f ration.
The sun's diameter decreases at the rate
of live miles in a renrury. Its present dia
meter is 800,000 miles.
Lion
Coffee
is not
GLAZED.
COATED,
or otherwise
treated with
EGO
mixtures,
chemicals,
glue,
, etc etc
Lion
Coffee
is a
Pure Coffee.
Watch our next advertisement.
Just try a package of LION COFFEE
and you will understand the reason of its
popularity.
LION COFFEE is now used in mil
lions of homes.
"IT PAYS YOU TO BUY LION COFFER"
( We'd like to give housewives a few reasons why
It pays them to buy LION COFFEE,
'Til a brand upon which they csn always rely,
; And it pays them to buy LION COFFEE. -
'Tis the purest and the cheapest, the wholewmeit,
too.
It gives satisfaction the whole country through.
It ii NOT glaied or colored, has natural hue
And it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
There's your quantity full, and your quality right,
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
There's also some other inducements in sight
That pay you to buy LION COFFEE.
A Lion head on every wrapper you'll find.
Each package Is with a big Premium List lined.
Which points out nice presents of every kind
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
You can get Silver Spoons, Thimbles, Scissors or
Pir.s,
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE,
Gold Ring or Gold Watch that your praises well
wins.
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEEL
Umbrellas or Pictures, or Cutlery fine,
Clocks, Handkerchiefs, Bclti-things in every line.
In which ute snd ornament often combine.
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
There sre toys for the bsby, the girl or the boy,
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE,
F rom Dolls up to Kites each a suitable toy.
So it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
There are Household Utensils for everyday use.
And Pictures as pretty as Art can produce.
So to lack all such goods you hove no excuie.
Since it pays you to buy LION COFFEE.
In every package of LION COFFEE you will find a fully illustrated and descriptivo list. No housekeeper In
fact, no woman, man, boy or girl will fail to find in the list some articlo which will contribute to their happiness
comfort and convenience, and which they may have by simply cutting eut a certain number of Lion Heads from
the wrappers of our one pound sealed packages (which is the only form in which this excellent coffee is sold)
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j that awful breath, so repulsive as to cause a halt In friendship, affection, love, any form cf Intimacy.
Nobody can stand its overpowering stench, and It Is a cause of terrible misery to those afflicted and their dear
ones. There Is only one way to cure It disinfect the digestive canal with CASCARETS! Clean It out, keep It
clean, let CASCARETS stimulate the lining of mouth and stomach, and put it in shape to work nafrally and
properly. Nothing but CASCARETS will bring about the desired result BE SURE YOU GET THEM!
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and aa a mild and effeeuvo lajaitvo tbey are
simply woodertul. My daughter and I were
bolbered with sick stomach and our breath
was very bad. After taking a tew donas of
r-icreu we have Improved wonderful 1.
Tbey area gre&i. bolp in the family."
WlI.HSl.WINA Nosu
I1W Rlttenbouse St, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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