FOLLY OF EXTRAVAGANCE Dr. Talmage Says Causes the Great Fi nancial Disturbance Which Takt Place Every Few Year. PEOPLE WHO LIVE BEYOND THEIR MEANS. ICorrriiM mom Washington, 1). C In this discourse Dr. Talmaee shows the cause of the great financial disturbance which take place every few years, and arraigna the people who live beyond their mean; text, Jere miah xvii, 11, "An the partridge iitteth on egga and hatclieth tbem not, po he that getteth richea and not by right tliail leave them in the midst of hia day and at hi end shall be a fool." Alluaion ia here made to a well known fact in natural history. If a partridge or a quail or a robin Vrood the egga of an other specie, the young will not atay with the one that happened to brood them, but at the first opportunity will as tort with their own apeciea. Thoae of us who have been brought up in the country have seen the dismay of the farmyard hen, having brooded aquatic fowls, when after awhile they tumble into their nat ural elpment, the water. 80 my text sug gest that a man may gather under his wings the property of others, but it will after awhile escape; it will leave tbe man in a sorry predicament and make him feel very silly. What has caused all the block dnys of financial disasters for the last aixty years? Home any it is the credit system. Some thing back of that. Borne say it is the spirit of gambling ever and anon becoming epidemic. Something back of that. Home guy it is the sudden shrinkage in the value of securities, which even the most honest and intelligent men could not have fore seen. Something back of that. I will give you the primal cause of all these dis turbances. It is the extravagance of modern aociety which impela a man to spend more money than he can honestly make, and he goes into wild speculation in order to get the means for inordinate display, and sometimes the mftn is to blame and aometimes his wife, and oftener both. Five thousand dollars income, 810, 000, 120.000 income is not enough for a man to keep up the style of living he pro poses, and therefore he steers his bark to ward the maelstrom. Other men have suddenly snatched up f.W.OOU or $100,000 why not he? The present income of the man not being large enough, he must move earth and hell to catch up with hia neigh bors. Others have a country scat so must he; others have an extravagant ca terer ao must he; others have a palatial residence so must he. Kxtravagance is the cause of all the de falcations of the last sixty years, and if you will go through the history of nil the great panics and the great financial dis turbances no sooner have you found the story than right back of it you will find the story of how many homes the man had, how many carriages the man had, how many residences in the country the man had, how many banquets the man fave always, and not one exception for he last sixty years, cither directly or in directly extravagance the cause. Now, for the elegances and the refine ments and the decorations of life I cast my vote. While I am considering this subject a bnsket of flowers is handed in flowers paradisaical in their beauty white calla, with a green background of bego nia; a cluster of heliotropes nestling in some geraniums; sepal and perianth bear ing on them the marks of God's finger. When I see that basket of flowers, they persuade me that Ood loves beauty and adornment and decoration. God might have made the earth so as to supply the gross demands of sense, but left it with out adornment or attraction. Instead of the variegated colora of the seasons, the earth might have worn an unchanging dull tirown.' The tree might have put forth ita fruit without the prophecy of leaf or blos som. Niagara might have come down in gradual descent without thunder and winged spray. Tjook out of your window any morning after there has been a dew and see whether God loves jewels. Put a crystal of snow under a microscope and see what God thinks of architecture. God com manded the priest of olden time to have bis robe adorned with a wreath of gold and the hem of his garment to be embroid ered in pomegranates. The earth sleeps, and God blankets it with the brilliants of the night sky. The world wakes, and God washes it from the burnished fciver of the sunrise. So I have not much patience with A man who talks as though decora tion and adornment and the elegances of life are a sin v-hen they are divinely rec ommended. But there is a line to be drawn between adornment and decora tion that we can afford and those we can not afford, and when a man crosses that line he becomes culpable. I cannot tell you what is extravagant for you. You cannot tell me what ia extravagant for .me. What is right for a ouern mav be squandering for a duchess. What may be economical for yon. a man with larger in come, will be wicked waste fov me, with smaller income. There is no itnn rule on this subject. Kvery man before God on bis knees must judge what is extrava gance, and when a man goes into expen ditures beyond his means he is extrava gant. When a man buys anvthing he can not pay for, he is extravagant. There are families in all our cities who enn hardly pay their rent, and who owe all the merchants in the neighborhood and yet have an apparel unfit for their cir cumstances, and are all the time Bailing so near shore that business misfortune or an attack of sickness prepares them for pauperism. You know very well there are thousands of families in our great cities who stay in neighborhoods until they have exhausted all their capacity to get trusted. They stay in the neighborhoods until the druggists will let them have no more medicines, and the butchers will sell them no more meat, and the bakers will sell them no more bread, and the gro eervman will sell them no more sugar. Then they find the region unhealthy, and they hire a, carman, whom they never pay. to take them to some new quarters, where the merchants, the druggists, the butchers, the bakers and the giocerymen come and give them the best rounds of beef and the best merchandise of all sorts until they find out that the oaly compen sation they are going to get is the ac quaintance of the patrons. There are thousands of such thieves in all our big cities. You see, I call them by the right name, for a if a man buvs anything he does not mean to pay for he is a thief. Of course sometimes men are flung of misfortunes, and they cannot pav. I know "en who are just as honust in having failed as other men are honest iu succeed ing. I suppose there is hardly a man who has gone through life but there have been some times when he has been so hurt of misfortune he could not meet his obliga tions. But all that I put aside. There re a multitude of people who buy that which they never intend to pay for, for which there is no reasonable expectation they will ever be able to pay. Now, if you have become oblivious of honesty and mean to defraud, why not save the mer chant as much a you can? Why not go some day to his store and when nobody la looking just shoulder the ham or the pare rib and' in modest silence steal away? That would be less criminal, because in the otner way you take not only the man' goods, but you take the time of the mer chant and the time of hi accountant, and you take the time of tbe messenger who! brought you Mm goods. Now, if you must1 teal, .teal in e way to do a little dam air to the trader aa possible. John Kandolnh umu ;n a : I Benate when a question of national tinauce was being discussed, and. itretcbing him- self to Jus full height, in a shrill voice he cried out: "Mr. U.uiranaa, I We discov ered the philosopher's stone, which turn everything into gold pay a you go." So ciety has got to be reconstructed on this subject or the seasons of defalcation wUl continue to repeat themselves. You have no right to ride in a carriage for which you are hopelessly in debt to the wheelwright who furnished the landau and to the horse dealer who provided the blooded span, and to the harness maker who caparisoned the gay steeds, and to the liveryman who has provided tbe stab ling! and to the driver who, with roteited list, sits on the cosch box. Ok, I am so glad it is not the absolute necessities of life which send people out into, dishonesties and fling them into mis Jortunes. It i almost always the super fluities. God bus Mounted us a huusc. UTintrit a pnMhre; rRifnenfT buT lnlcnin chills; food, but not canvssbnek duck. I am yet to see one of these great defalca tions which is not connected in some way with extravagance. While once in awhile a Henry Irving or an F.dwin Booth or a Joncph Jefferson thrills a great audience with tragedy, you know as well ss I do that the vast major ity of the theatres are as debased as de based they can be, as unclean as unclean they can be and ss damnable as damnable they can he. Three million dollars the vast majority of those dollars going in the wrong direction. Over a hundred millions paid in this country for cigars and tobacco a vear! About 12,000,000,000 paid for strong drink in one year in this country! With such extravagance, pernicious extravagance, can there be any permanent prosperity? Business men, cool headed business men, is such a thing a possibility? These ex travagances also account, as I have al ready hinted, for the positive primes, the forgeries, the absconding of the officers of the banks. The store on the business street swamped by the residence on the fashionable avenue. The father', the hus band's craft capsized by carrying too much domestic anil. That is what springs the leak in the merchant's money till. That is what cracks the pistols of the sui cides. That is what tears down the hanks. That is what stops insurance companies. That is what halts this nation again and again in its triumphal mar-h of prosper ity. In the presence of the American peo ple, so far as I can get their attention, I want to arraign this monster curse of ex travsgance. and I want you to pelt it with your scorn and hurl at it your anathema. 1 know it cuts close. 1 did not know but some of you in hiirh dudgeon would get up and go out. Y011 stand it well. Some of you make a great swash in life, and after awhile you will die, and minis ters will he sent for to come and stand by your coffin and lie about your excellences, but they will not come. 'l vou send for me I will tell you what my text will be: 'He that provideth not for his own. and especially for those in his own household, is worse than an infidel!" What an apportionment! Twenty thou sand dollars for ourselves and one cent for God! Ah, my friends, this extrava gance accounts for n great deal of what the cause of God suffers! And the desecration goes on even to the funeral day. You know very well that there are men who die solvent, but the expenses are so great before they get un der ground they are insolvent. There are families that go into penury in Wicked response to the demands of tins day. They put in casket and tomb stone that which they ought to put in bread. They wonted breud; you gave them a tombstone. One would think that the last two ob ligations people would be particular about would be the physician and the under taker. Because they are the two Inst ob ligations, those two professions are almost always cheated. They send for the doctor in great haste, and he must come dav and mgnt. They send for tiie undertaker amid the grent solemnities, and often these two men are the verv last to be met with compensation. , Merchants sell goods, and the goods are not paid for. They take back the goods, I am told. But there is no relief in this case. The man spent all he had in luxury and extravagance while he lived, ond then he goes out of the world, and has left nothing for his fnmilv, nothing for the obsequies, and as he goes out of the world he steals the doctor's pills and the undertaker's slippers. I was reading in a New York paper an account of the obsequies in a family of very moder ate estate, and the aggregate wag $3000. A man in New ork of moderate estate dies. He has lived in extreme luxury. He departs this life. The family, desirous of keeping up the magnificence, orders the following things. They were produced and never paid for to this day: Casket, covered with Lyons velvet, silver moldings jgno Heavy plated handles eo Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman letters 75 Ten linen scarfs 1.10 Floral decorations . 225 Music and quartet choir at the house 40 I wenty carriages J40 Then fifteen other important expen ditures amounting to 330 Making an aggregate of $1878 And nil that to get one poor mortal to i,'8 . . ' nome d never paid for! Swin dled his family. Swindled the world. He is swindling it now. It is one of the great curses of this day, the extravagance, the wicked extravagance, of the country. t And then look how the cause of'God is impoverished. Men give so much some times for their indulgences they have nothing for the cause of God ond religion. J wenty two million dollars expended in this country a year for religious purposes; but what are the twenty-two millions ex pended for religion compared with the hundred millions expended 011 cigars and I I , ?, 8nJ thvn two thousand millions of dollars spent for rum! So a man who had a fortune of $750,000 or what amount ed to that in London spent it all in in dulgences, chiefly in gluttonies, and sent hither and yon for all the delicacies and ! often had a meal that would cost $100 or $200 for himself. Then he wo reduced to one guinea, with which he bought a rare bird, had it rn,lA in U.t .... ... t' , "in. bvjic, ate it, took two hours for digestion, walked out " rsinnnsier nriuge, and jumped into the 1 homes on a large scale what men ore doing on a small scale. Oh, my friends, let us take our tand against the extravagances of society. Do not pay for things which are frivolous when you may lock the necessities. Do not put one month's wages or salary into o trinket, mat one trinket. Keep your credit good by seldom asking for any. Do not starve a whole year to afford one Belsnazzars carnival. Do not buv a coat of many colors, and then in six months be out at the elbows. Flourish not, as some people I have known, who took apart ments at a fashionable hotel ond had ele gant drawing rooms attached and then vanished in tho night, not even leaving their compliment for the landlord, n j. ' ,:,u my friends, in the day of God judgment we shall not only have to give an account for the way we made our money, but for the way we spent it. We have got to leave all the things that ur round us now. t.u 'rtr iLanf' of you in th8 dy'nK ''our felt like the dying aetres who asked that the casket of jewels be brought to her and then turned them over with her pale hand and said. "Alas, that I hove to leave you so oon! Better in that hour have one treasure of heaven than the bridal trous seau of a Marie Antoinette, or to have been seated with Caligula at a banquet which cost it thousands of dollar, or to have been carried to our last resting place with Senators and prince as pal bearers. They that consecrate their wealth, their time, their all, to God shall be held in everlasting remembrance, while I have the authority of this book for announcing that the name of the wicked shall rot. PROMINENT PEOPLC Rider Haggard, the novelist, baa re cently turned his forty-fifth year. King Edward' title Is to be changed to Emperor because of the wider ex tent of hia power. Former Governor Bob Taylor, - of Tennessee baa made $16,000 out of his lust lecture, with fiddle accompani ment. Emperor William la a partner In the conatructlou of an electric express railway from Hamburg to Berlin, Ger many. The Empress of ltussla la a type writer, acd assists tier husband by taking down many of his letters from dictation. Thomas Hardy has Just reached his sTxiy-tirst birthday. He began to "scribble," as be saya himself, wbea be was sixteen. Lord Dufferln, who baa recently com pleted bis seventy-fifth year, once re ferred to himself, on account of tbe numerous offices be has held, as "maid of all-work to British governments. ' Governor Odell la considering the) advisability of making a personal tour of the Erie .Canal tbls summer, 00 as to be thoroughly posted when the subject of enlargement shall come up at tbe next legislative session. THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson Comments For July 21. Subject: Nosh Saved la (be Ark, (lcn. vlii., 1-22 Golden Text, Oea. vl., --Memory Verses, 20-22 Commentary oa tbe Day's Lesson. Connecting Links. According to the commonly. accepted chronology, more than 1050 year have passed since our last les son. During that time the Old Testament world become densely populated, and tbe race had grown exceedingly wicked, so that God decided to destroy them from the face of the earth. i 1. "God remembered Noah." Noah himself, though one that had found grace in the eyes of the Lord, yet seemed to be forgotten in the ark, but at length God returned in mercy to him, sr.d tbot is ex pressed by His remembering him. The strange work of judgment being over, the saved family, and all in association with them, come into remembrance. "Made a wind." Such a wind as produced a strong and sudden evaporation. 2. "Was restrained." 'When God's pur poses were accomplished it was as easy for Him to restrain the rain as to cause it to rain. 3. "Returned continually." They grad ually departed. The heat of the sun ex haled mii h, and perhaps the subterra neous caverns soaked in more. 4. "Mountains of Ararat." A region nearly in the middle of Armenia, even now called by the Armenians Ararat, on the mountains of which the ark of Nonh rested; sometimes in a wider sense as the whole of Annenia iself. As the drying wind most probably came from the east or north, it is likely that the ark was drifted toward Asia Minor, and eaueht land on some hill in the region of the Eu phrates. It cannot be supposed that it rested on either of the peaks now called Ararat, a Ararat was a country, not a mountain, and these peaks do not seem suitable for the purpose. 7. "Sent forth." Though God had told Noah when the flood would come, even to a day, yet He had not revealed to him the time when the waters would disappear; the knowledge of the former was neces sary, while- a knowledge of the latter would serve onlv to gratify his curiosity, and the concealing it from him would serve the purpose of testing his faith and patience. "Haven to and fro." Going forth and returning. It is generally sup posed that the raven flew off and was seen no more; it is evident, however, that she did return, but was not taken into the ark. 8. "He sent forth a dove." He sent forth the dove three times. The first timo it speedily returned; the second time it returned bringing with it an olive leaf, and the third time it went forth to return no more. The dove is an emblem of a soul, which, finding no rest or satisfaction in this sinful world, returns to Christ as to its ark; the carnal heart like the raven takes up with the world and feeds on the carrion it finds there. As Noah put forth his hand and took the dove into the ark, so Christ will graciously receive those who come to Him for rest. 11. "An olive leaf." An emblem of the restoration of peace between God and the enrtli: and from this circumstance tho olive tins been the emblem of peace among all civilized nations. Sweet emblem of the renewed mind which, amid the sur rounding desolation, seeks and finds its rest and portion in Christ, and not only so, but also la-a hold of the earnest of the inheritance, and furnishes the blessed proof that judgment has passed away and that a renewed earth is coming fully into view. '1 ne carnal mind, on the contrary, can re..t in anything and everything but Christ; it (like the raven) con feed upon all unclean ncss. 14. "Second month," etc. From this it appears that Noah was in the ink a com plete solar year, or 335 days. 16. "Go forth of the ark." Noah did not leave the ark until the command came from God. It wos the Lord who was di recting this whole mutter. 20. "Noah buildcd an altar." The first thing that Noah did after his wonderful preservation was 10 pay his debt of grati tude to God, who hod so wonderfully pre served him. Adam, Cain and Abel offered sacrifices and there can be no doubt that they had altars on which they offered them, but this, builded bv Noun, is cer tainly the first on record. The word which we render altar signifies properly a place for sacrifice. Altar comes from the Lutin altus, high or elevated, because places for sacrifice were generally either raised very high or built on the tops of hills uud moun tains; hence they are culled high places in the Scriptures, but these were chiefly used lor idolatrous purposes. "Unto the Lord." It was "unto the Lord" he erected this al tar. Superstition would have worshiped the ark, as being the means of salvation, but Noah's faith passed beyond the urk to the God of the ark, and hence when he stepped out of it, instead of casting back a lingering look at it, or regarding it as an object of worship, he built an altar unto the Lord and worshiped Him, and the ark is never heard of again. "Burnt offerings." This was "on acknowledgment of guilt and an atonement for sin, a grateful recogni tion of God authority and goodness, the means of securing His favor, and a token of the giver's self-dedication to His serv ice." At first sacrifices were offered by individuals, as Cain and Abel; but uftei the flood by beads of families, or tribes. This offering was a very expressive type of the sacrifice of Christ, as nothing ios than His complete and full sacrifice could make atonement for the sin of the world. In most other offerings the offerer had a share, but in the whole burnt offering all was given to God. 21. "Smcllcd a sweet savour." That is. He was well pleased with this act. "Said in his heart. In chap. 9: 8-17, God made the covenant with Noah that He had in His heart to make. "Will not again curse." When Noah and his family first began to make their home on the land there would be a fear at every rain that it might be the beginning of another flood. This would interfere not only with their com fort, but with their progress. What would be the use of building houses or cultivating field that might at soy time be destroyed The covenant was God's solemn promise iu their behalf. 22. "Karth remaineth." Here it is plain ly intimated that the earth ia not to re main always; it, and oil the work there in, must be burned up. 2 Pet. 3: 7. "Seed time and harvest," etc. The Lord prom ises two signs as the guarantee, the visible Iiroof, that the earth would never again le destroyed by a flood. The first was that seedtime and harvest and day and night should not cease while the eurth re mained; the second was the bow set in the cloud. Chap. 0: 13. NEWSY CLEANINCS. Prayers for rain have been offered all through Johnson County, Mo. Dowlcltea have been forbidden to meet In the streets of Waterloo, Iowa. Preahyterlona In Mexico have organ ized independently of tho Church In the United (States. The first Importation of cane sugar ever received from Egypt has arrived at New Orleana, La. 1 Surveyors report that a Canadian railway to tbe Yukon could be con structed at reasonable cost. Nearly 2000 farmers within thirty miles of Chicago have bad their houses equipped with telephones, The practice of punishing pupils by deducting credits for scholarship baa been forbidden in tbe Ban Francisco schools. . Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has refused to reappoint "Farmer" Dunn as bead of tbe New York Weather Bureau. Tbe Poetofflce Department has al lowed 50,7B0 for salaries of additional letter carrlera In Chicago during tbe new fiscal year. Importations of precious stones for tbe past year at New York City amounted to $21,81,0S8, over $3,000, 000 more than in any other year. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. July 21" "A Strosi Weak Man." Judges xvl. 29-JO. Scripture Verses Sampson as a man of faith. Hob. si. U2, 8U; our duty to lie strong, Eph. vl. 10; 1 John II. 14; tho source of true atrength, Col. 1. 11; I Peter I. C; how to overcome tempta tion, I John Iv. 4; Jude 24; II Peter I. 3 8. LESSON THOUGHTS. ' Grwit gifts often go handdn-band with great Imperfections. When Samson broke IiIb Naoarlte row, he lost his strength, and was taken captive. This was to teach tbe Israelites that nil their strength lay In consecration to Jehavoh, and that they bad lost It by departing from their vows of alleglcnce. It teaches us the same lessnu. SELECTIONS. Four times It Is declared of Sam son that "the Spirit of tho Iord came upon him" In conectlon with his feats of strength (Judges xlll. 25; slv. 6, 19; sv. 14). This was the philosophy of all his strength. He was powerful because God was specially with him and In him. A frail man may become mighty through God. Through God Joshua's feeble voice held the sun and moon, and the touch of Ellslia and the voice of Peter had power to wake tire sleeping dead. Now It was from tbls exalted Misitlou that Sum no n fell. He departed from God, and then "the Lord departed from him." Lot blm depart from us and we are ruined. Tbe death of Samson was more honorable to the man and more useful to his nation than any event In his previous enreer. The heroism of his death followed the return of God's strength, and the return of strength followed a great fall. We may learn lessons and devlue benefits from our owu failures. Through otir very weakness we may discern the secret of strength. The humility which should accompany failure Is one of the first steps towards wiser conduct. EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS July 21 --"A Strong Weak Maa." Ju.'gcf xvl. 20-39. Sources of Strength. All human Strength is derived. It Is not the creation of man. It la god's gift. It cannot be Invented. Man may use It. He may abuse It. He cannot create It. A man of symmetrical strength draws from three sources. He avails himself of material resources. Mat ter Is n medium of power. Three dis tinct powers are utilized Iu the build ing of n wall. There Is the power of cohesion, by virtue of which the par ticles of n sinjile stone are held togeth er in one mass. There Is the power of ndhcdnu, by virtue of which one stone clings to another. Then them Is the power of gravitation, by which the entire wall Is held firmly to the earth. The master builder must draw upon all these sources of power. The strong man must have mighty mental resources. The power of knowledge lies in the knowledge of power. The man who would muster men must mus ter nilnils. Knowledge of truth Is a necessary factor iu saving power. The Infinite Thinker said. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Men need the knowledge of sight. They need the knowledge of Insight. They must have the knowledge that conies through experience. If we knew God better we should love him more. To know him Is to love lilm. To love him is to know him. And to know him is eternal life. The strong man must draw mightily upon spiritual resources. It is uot enough flint a man draws upon power that makes. He must draw upon power that "makes for righteousness." There Is enough spir itual foree plnylng across the life of every man to make him as holy and happy as an angel. Let the soul open to those forces. A mighty spirit makes a mighty man. The Almighty Spirit offers that gift to all. I'ses of Strength. "Lift up." That Is the motto of the Kpworth League. To lift another man must stand a lit tie higher than the one he lifts. The force that lifts the Inner man must al ways be within. Tho strong man gains. In strength In exact proportion as he gives his strength to help the helpless. Strength Is never given for mere pleasure. P. tit ho will never bo miserable who gives his strength to make others happy. Unusual strength is heaven's call to unusual service. The strong man's bow will abide In strength If he let the arrows of life fly, owlft and many, In the army of the Lord. Strengtn Is abused when It Is used for nitsre display. In that lay one of Ihe secrets of Samson's downfall. That Is tho Infamy of pu gilism. It Is to be feared that many military exploits aro not ulways free from that Ignoble spirit. The abuse of strength will bring weakness, want, and wretchedness at last. RAMS' HORN BLASTS THE flowers . of honor bloom In tho soil of humility. Only he Is fit tJ ihtk Irta- ehonn tni 111 may lie luv giants of hcavon. Some flowers must fade that their cnHa -ti'.tf f 'The true pastor J 9 Is ever longing for irau wno can oe led. It takes a great man to preach a good Berroon to a small congregation. A good shepherd does not stir up the mud Of snecnlnflnn It, h. .mi paters. " One pickle mav niv man ' ri- j The living do not need tho pleasures of the dead. If we may rejoice In having we may In hope. Our interests determine the love) of our lives. Flattery is never more than a loan. The peace of God In the heart brings the peace of victory in the life. When a man wears hia piety In his watch chain you may know it Is paste. Sympathy Is the secret of sight. The man who la afraid of his skin will never save hia soul. All men havo equal rights but not equal resolution to reach them. Every church ought to have a cor. ral for the kicker to air bis heels. The sermon prepared for tbe bead never reaches the heart. The best frlenda of the devil Is the man wb.o proclaims hia disease. 1 a viasjsar v,i.r-- I,nnn1erlng Thin Irreeea To lann'ler the einnintte creations of Bins llns and lace In which this season abounds has become quite a problem, yst the most delicate material will not be Injured if washed with Ivory Boap and dried in the shade. But little taron need be used. Ki.iz H. Passes. The present year will see the starting of at least three expeditions, representing three different nations, in an attempt to olve some of the mysteries of the South Polar region. One will sail from Ger many, another from England, and a third from Sweden. The Swedish expedition is the latest to be organised, but it ha been undertaken with enthusiasm, and King Os car will personally give it financial aid. A Real Fanny Sitorf. Old Tim Llnklns, the barber ofWshssh Ave nue, Chloago, Is a great student of proverbial philosophy, and he sometimes entertains his customers. In the Interval of a "scrspe" or " haircut," by his apt applications of the well known proverbs of the post to the conditions or requirements of the presant. His regular customers know his strong point, and manv a man who apparently goes In for shave, is really In search of a rest In a cosv chair, and has a desire to hear "Tim" hold forth pro verbially. One day Isst week a stranger came In for a shave, mid aa he stretched himself wearily In the chsir, Tim prepared to lather him. The man Incident!- remarked that he had Intended coming In earlier In the day but had been prevented. "Well, it's better late than never," ssid Tim, smlllnglv. "Not al ways," replied the strsngor, flowly. "How about losing your porketboos. f I never lost one until yesterday never did, but I would sooner hsve kept It. Now, whv wss It better for me to lose It late than not at all ? " Tim acknowledged that he was wrong and the man continued : "Ilnn't know whst I would have done in my predicament, only an old acquain tance of mine on the Lake front let me havo twenty to go on with." "Ah," chipped in Tim, "that was good ! A friend In need Is a friend indeed." "No, ho ifn't," snapped tho man who wss being shaved. "There vou're dead wrong again. How enn a friend in need be a friend indeed? I have a good many friends who are always in hoed and ihevarea nuisance to me. Always on the borrow." Tim thought tho problem over in his mind and rcluctsntly ad mitted that the man itas riht. He had al most 'mado up his mind not to speak again when the stranger continued, "Yes sir, thev are nuisances. Why, one of them fellows has been calling on me for the past year and threatens to get even with mo some way if I do not loan him fifty dollars. Ho threatens me at every vi-dt." "Oh, I wouldn't mind that," replied Tim unconsciously, "yon know theoldadngo 'A barking dog never bite-i.' " "Thero you are agnin," said the "shavee " aa hn wiped a little lathor from tho corner of his mouth. "Say, what do you know about dogs, anyway, thst you talk in such a silly strain 1 Have yon ever ventured to go too close to a barking dog, and if you did, what did he do to you 'I Did you over know a bark ing dog that didn't bite if he got the chance? Tim said ho couldn't exactly call to mind an' canine acquaintance that strictly fulfilled the claim in the provorb. and there wss a silence for a fow minutes while his razor was gliding ovor tho man's face. Then the barber smiled to hlmsoif as ho bethought him of a good joke. "I suppose," ho said, aa ho applied tho bay rum, "I suppose you don't believe In the bar bers' proverb at all?" "What's that V asked tho stranger, rising. "Two heads ore better than one," answered Tim. "Of course you can understand why they are, In mv business, but I know you would like to say they would be bad for a man with tho headache or" "Nothing of the kind," put in tho othur, smil ing. "One of your proverbs, at least, is right. 1 hnppeu to know that two heads are better than one." "Then you don't object to that oldadogo?" "Not at all. It is dead right. And I would thank you verv much if you have any stray Linn heads at iiand those taken from the Lion Coffeo wrappers. My wife is cnllocting them and sh is about six shy of tho number required to get a Lady' Gold Watch. You see in this csso "two beads aro better than one, and twenty aro better than ten." "Just so." added Tim, cheerfully, "but you seo, my wife is doing tho same thing, and expects a premium in a few weeks. Mo to her also, 'two heads are better than one.' " f'Well. in that case," said tho stranger, as he paid Tim for the shavo anil prepared to depart, "you had better tell your wife to do ths same as mine is doing. Save up tho Lion heads until after September 1st next, when the new 1'remium List is issued. Then if sho semis, them to the Woolson Spico Co.,Tolcdo, Ohio, sho can have bur pick of sumo very choice present." Al"cw Ynn:'i steamship line 13 to lie established between Dominion and French ports. Of 2000 pigeons set five at Bp.mdau, the majority reuched Hamburg, a distance of 160 miles, in three hours. Some peoplo net like fools and other peoplo don't havo to act. I.adtrs t un Wear Shore One eize smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for ths foot. It make tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aching feet, ingrowing noils, corns and bunions. At oil dmgists and shoo stores, 25c. Trial package FREE lv mail. Address AUn 6. Olmsted. L Roy, X. Y. Speaking of women who cry, the Eskimo women iairly live on blubber. Kaiure .ecds Assistance only. Many of the coses of serious illness could be checked at onco with o dote of Crab Orchard Water, taken in time. The man who has the greatest confi dence in himself ha the least in other people. Bee advt. of Skithdkal'r Business Collxoi I ' . "The Enigroa in the Sun." I R - . . .ill' rSr1 3 .A . And si on it we K Watch our r)Kt advartlavmont, Just try a package of LION COFFEE and you will understand tho reason of its popularity. 1 t Visit tn t irens. Talk had turned upon the old-time circus. The man with the gray hairs in his beard and whose front teeth were unmistakably false, had only smiled at sonic of the other stories. "That reminds me," he said finally, "how I once paid $.?r and lav in bed f'-ir three days, living on ir(tiid diet, in order to sec about half of three cheap acts in one of those old one-ring cir cuses. "I was a big, overgrown boy at the tunc. I lived in a small town twelve miles off a railroad, and when a small circus billed the town and finally put up its tent and side show on the vacant lots next to our house, I didn't like to dig up the price. Especially I didn't like it when I noticed that the shed roof of our coal-house slanted upward to ward the open space just under tire edge of the canvas roof of the main tent. "So, while the ticket agent was busy, I sprawled out on the sloping roof, lace down, with my head just over the edge of the coal shed, looking over the heads of the spectators inside the tent and into the tinsel glories of the ring. "And, incidentally, I was exactly in that position when a circus roustabout saw me and lifted me off the roof with a hunk of coal that knocked out six as good teeth as ever a man stuck into a Ben Davis apple. "And I've never been to a circus since." Iteduelng the I'cmnnd. "I see that the King has turned wine merchant, de.ih linv llc'ii old r.iT such a dwcadfullv larifC cmantitv of hot- ties." "I WOlldatl wtlV he doesn't need Ibe stuff, old chappie?" 1 suppose it s because he s let so many of his chaplains bo. don't vou know." A Fumilinr lllu-trnllnn. "Papa, what is a king?" "A king, my child, is a person whose authority is practically unlimited, whose word is law, and whom everybody must obey." 'Papa, is mamma a king? Each packago of Pctham Fadeless Drr colors more goods than any other dye ond colors them better too. Hold by all druggists. Myrrh, which comes from Arabia and Tersia. was used as medicine in the time of Solomon. Rest lor Ihe Rowels. 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Molo tiv rtmgglfty. The fiery sun is In th Esst And si on it we f aie. Our ryes jpon the legend (esst Emblasoned In its rsyl. Whst secret miy there b immerse.! Within thst glaring sun, Vhst mcsn the words, "September first. Nineteen hundred end oner" September first? Thst is the dst When LION COFFEE grsnd. Its newest Premium List so great Distributes through the land. Mo useful gilts lor young snd old.' For home, lor work or play. And there's variety untold For snyone to-dsy. Be sure snd ak your grocer, then. To give you, on thst date. Our newest List, or, tske your pen, 1 If yon don't went to wsit, And writs a letter straight to u . A twocent stamp inclose. We'll forward you the Uit, and thus, ho Uoublt you impose. I WOOLSON SPtCB CO.. TOLEDO. OHIO. ff
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