.WOMAN'SJPIIERt
gcv. Dr. Talmagc Says She Should
Rule as a Queen in
the Home.
Il Value at a Field o! Usefulness The
Mother's Influence,
ICoprrtvht MM.1 '
Wakhisotox, D. 0. In this discourse
pr. Talmnge extol home a a field of
fulness and especially encourage wive
,nd mothers; text. Genesis J, 27, "Male
end female created He them." )
In other words, God, who can make no
mistake, made man and woman for a spe
cific work . and to move in particular
spheres, man to be regnant in his realm,
woman to be dominant in hers. Ihe
boundary line between Italy and Switzer
land, between England and Scotland, is
not more thoroughly marked than this
distinction between the empire masculine
and tho empire feminine. So entirely dis
fimilar are the fields to which God called
them that you no more compare them
than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water
tnd grass, trees and stars. All this talk
ahout the superiority of one sex to the
other sex is an everlasting waste of ink
and speech. A jeweler may have a scale
so delicate that he can weigh the dust of
diamonds, but where are the scales so deli
cate that you cau weigh in them affection
sgainst affection, sentiment against aenti
ment, thought against thought, soul
sgainst soul, a man word against a wom
an's word?
You come out witn the stereotyped re
mark that man is superior to woman in
Intellect, and then I open on my desk the
swarthy, iron typed, thunder-bolted writ
ings of Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth
Browning and George Eliot. You come on
with your stereotyped remark about wom
an's superiority to man in the item of af
fection, but I ask you where was there
more capacity to love than in John, the
disciple, and Kobert McCheyne, the
Scotchman, and John Rummcrflold, the
Methodist, and Henry Martyn, the mis
sionary? The heart of those men was so
large that after you had rolled into it the
hemispheres there was room still left to
marshal the hosts of heaven and act up the
throne intellectual. I deny to woman tho
throne affectional. No human phrase
ology will ever define the spheres, while
there is an intuition by which we know
when a man i in his realm and when a
woman is in her realm; and when either
of tbem is out of it. No bungling legisla
tion ought to attempt to make a definition
or to say, "This is the line and that is the
line."
My theory is that if woman wants to
vote she ought to vote, and that if a mtui
wants to embroider and keep bouse he
ought to be allowed to embroider and keep
house. There are masculine women and
there are effeminate men. My theory is
that you have no right to interfere with
any one's doing anvtliing that is righteous.
Albany and Washington might as well
decree by legislation how high a brown
thrasher should fly or how deep a trout
should plunge as to try to seek out the
height or the depth of woman's duty.
The question of capacity will settle finally
the whole question, the whole subject.
W hen a woman is prepared to preach she
will preach, and neither conference nor
presbytery can hinder her. When a wom
an is prepared to move in highest commer
cial spheres, she will have great influence
on the exchange, and no boards of trade
can hinder her. I want woman to under
stand that heart and brain van overflow
any barrier that politicians may set up,
and that nothing can keep her back or
keep her down but the question of capac
ity. I know there are women of most unde
sirable nature who wander up and down
the country, having no homes of their
own or forsaking their own homes, talk
ing about their rights, and we know very
well that they themselves are fit neither
to vote nor fit to keep house. Their mis
sion seems to be to humiliate the two
sexes at the thought of what any one of
us might become. No one would want to
live under the laws that such wom
en would enact, or to have cast upon
society the children that such women
would raise. Hut I will show you that
the best rights that woman cun own she
already has in her possession, that her
position in this country at this time is not
one of commiseration, but one of congrat
ulation; that the grandeur and power of
her realm have never yet been appre
ciated, that she sits to-day on a throne so
high that all the thrones of earth piled on
top of each other would not make her a
footstool. Hero is the platform on which
she stands. Awav down below it uro the
ballot box and the Congressional assem
blage and the legislative hall.
Woman always has voted and always
will vote. Our great-grandfathers thought
they were by their vr.tcs putting; Wash
ington into the Presidential chair. No.
His mother, by the principles she taught
him and by the habits she inculcated,
made hiin President. It was a Christian
mother's hand dropping the ballot when
Lord Bacon wrote, and Newton philoso-
and Jonathan Edwards thundered of
udgment to come. How many men there
lave been in hiuh nolitical station who
would nave been msuthcient to stand the
test to which their moral principle was
put had it not been for a wife's voice that
encouraged them to do right und a wife's
prayer that sounded louder than the cla
mor of partisanship! Why, my friends,
the right of suffrage as we men exercise
it seems to be a feeble thing. You, a
Christian man, come up to the ballot box,
and you drop your vote. Right after you
comet a libertine or a sot, the offscouring
of the street, and he drops his vote, and
his vote counteracts yours. But if in the
quiet of home life a daughter by her
Christian demeanor, a wife by her indus
try, a mother by her faithfulness, costs a
vote in the right direction then nothing
can resist it, and the influence of that
vote will throb through the eternities.
My chief anxiety, then, is not that
woman have other rights accorded her,
but that she by the grace of God rise up
to the appreciation of the glorious rights
she already possesses. I shall only have
time to speak of one grand and all absorb
ing right that every woman has, and that
is to make home nappy. That realm no
one has ever disputed with her. Men may
come home at noon or at night, and they
tarry a comparatively little while, but she
all day long governs it, beautifies it, sancti
fies it. It m within her power to make
it the most attractive place on earth. It
is the only calm harbor in this world.
You know as well as 1 do that this outside
world and the business world is a long
aeene of jostle and contention. The man
who has a dollar struggles to keep it; the
man who has it not struggles to get it.
1 rices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains.
Misrepresentations. Gougings. Under
selling. Buyers depreciating; salesmen ex
aggerating. Tenants seeking less rent;
landlords (manding more. Gold fidgety,
(struggles about office. Men who are in
trying to keep in; men out trying to get
in. blips, tumbles. Defalcations. Paniea.
Catastrophes. O woman, thank God you
nave a home and that you may be queen
n HI
Better be there than wear a queen's cor
onet. Better be there than carry the
purse of a. princess. Your abode may be
humble, but you can by your faith in God
and your cheerfulness of demeanor gild it
with splendors such as an upholsterer's
bond never yet kindled.
lhere are abodes in the city-humble,
to?T ,I)lttin unpapered rooms,
undesirable neighborhood-aiid yet there
il? ma"uerf tu-Jay who would' die on the
threshold rather than surrender it. Why?
It is home. Whenever he thinks of it lie
Thfi'f1" uGo1 hovering around it.
Ihe ladder of heaven are let down to this
bouse. Over the child's rouch crib there
are the cliantino of ano-ela u tho&e. that
sounded over Bethlehem. It is home.
these children may come up after
awhile, and they may win high position,
and they may have an ailluent residence,
but they will not until their dying day
"Kct vuaii iiumuie rum uuiier wuicn tneir
miner rested and their mother sang and
their sisters played.
Oh, if you would gather up all tender
memories, all the lights and shades of the
iSi'!',' banqueting and reunions, all
filial, fraternal, paternal and coniugul nf-
lecHous, ana yu ,ad only iust four let
ters to spell out that height and depth and
longth and breadth and magnitude and
eternity of iuuins;, you would, with
streaming eyes and trembling voice and
iivma capitals, H OM KI
What right doe woman want that Is
grander than to be queen in such a realm?
Why, the espies of heaven cannot fly
across that dominion. Horses, panting
and with lathered flanks, are not swift
enough to run to the outpost of that realm. I
They say that the sun never sets on the
British empire, but I have to tell you that
on mis reaim ui woman luiuum-n ctci
nity never marks any bound.
Isabella fled from the Spanish throne.
pursued by the nation's anathema, but i
she who is queen in a home will never lose
her throne, and death itself will only be
the annexation of heavenly principalities.
When you want to get your grandest
idea of a queen, you do not think of Cnth- .
erine of Hussia or of Anne of England or '
Maria Theresa of Austria, but when you
want to get your grandest idea of a queen
you think of the plain woman who sat op
posite your father at the table or walked
with him arm in arm down life' pathway, '.
sometime to the thanksgiving banquet,
sometimes to the grave, but always to
gether, soothing your petty griefs, cor
recting your childish waywardness, joining
in your infantile sports, listening to yout
evening prayers, toiling for you with '
needle or at the spinning wheel and on j
cold nights wrapping you up snug and .
warm. And then at lust on that day when I
she lay in the back room dying and you J
saw her take those thin nanus with which
she toiled for you so long and put them
together in a dying prayer that commend
ed you to God whom she had taught you
to trust oh, she was the queen! The cha
riots of God came down to fetch her, and
as she went in all heaven row up. rou
cannot think of her now without a rush
of tenderness that stirs the deep founda- '
tions of your soul, and you feel as much j
a child again as when you cried on her lap,
and if you could bring her back again t
speak just once more your name as ten- (
derly as she used to speak it you would j
be willing to throw yourself on the ground j
and kiss the sod that covers her, crying '
"Mother, mother!" Ah, she was the
queen, she was the queen 1
Now, can you tell me how many thou
sand miles a woman like that would have
to travel down before she got to thi
ballot box? Compared with this work ol
training kings and queens for God and
eternity, how insignificant seems all this
work of voting for aldermen and common
councilmen and sheriffs and constablei
and mayors nnd presidents! To make on
such grand woman as I have described
bow many thousand would you want ol
those people who go in the round of god
lessness and fushion and dissipation, dis
torting their bodies and going as far to
ward disgraceful apparel as they dare gc
so as not to be arrested of the police,
their behavior a sorrow to the good and 8
caricature of the vicious and an insult to
that God who made them women and not
forgons, and tramping on down through a
rivolous and dissipated life to temporal
and eternal destruction?
0 woman, with the lightning of youi
soul strike dead at your feet all these al
lurements to dissipation and to fashion!
Your immortal soul cannot be fed upon
such garbRge. God calls you up to em
pire und dominion. Will you have it!
Oh. give to God your heart, give to God
your best energies, give to God all yout
culture, give to God all your refinement,
give vourelf to Him for this world and the
next!
Soon all these bright eyes will be
quenched and these voices will be hushed.
For the last time you will look upon thii
fair earth. Father s hand, mother's hand,
sister' hand, child's hand, will be nc
more in yours. It will be night, and there
will tome up a cold wind from the Jordan,
and you must start. Will it be a lone
woman on a trackless moor? Ah, nol
Jesus will come up in that hour and otfer
Hi hand, and He will say, "You stood by
Me when you were well, now I will not
desert you when you are sick." One wave
of His hand and the storm will drop; an
other wave of His hand, and midnight
shall break into midnoon, and another
wave of His hand and the chamberlains ol
God will come down from the treasure
houses of heaven with robes lustrous,
blood washed and heaven glinted, in
which you will array yourself for the mar
riage supper of the Lamb. And then with
Miriam, who struck the timbrel by the
Ked Hen, nnd with Deborah, who led the
Lord's host into the fight, and with Han
nah, who gave her Samuel to the Lord,
and with Mary, who rocked Jesus to sleep
while there were angels singing in the
air, and with Florence Nightingale, whe
bound up the battle wounds of the Cri
mea, you will from the chalice of God
' drink to the soul's eternal rescue.
One twilight after 1 had been playing
with the children for some time 1 lav
down on the lounge to rest, and, half
asleep and half awake, I seemed to dream
this dream: It seemed to me that I was
in a far distant land not Persia, although
more Oriental luxuriance crowned the
cities; nor the tropics, although more
than tropical fruitfulness filled the gar
dens; nor Italy, although more than Ital
ian softness filled the air. And I wan
dered around, looking for thorns and net
tles, but I found none of them grew there.
And I walked forth and I saw the sun
rise, and I said, "When will it set again?"
And the sun sank not. And I saw all the
people in holiday apparel, and I said,
"When will they put on workingraan's
garb again and delve in the mine and
swelter at the forge?" But neither the
garments nor the robes did thev put off.
And I wandered in the suburbs and I
said, "Where do they bury the dead of
tlfia great city?" And I looked along by
the hills where it would be most beauti
ful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles
and tower and battlements, but not a
mausoleum nor monument nor white slab
could I see. And I went into the great
chapel of the town and I said: "Where do
the poor worship? Where are the benches
on which they sit?" And a voice an
swered, "We have no poor in this great
city. ' And I wandered out. seeking to
find the place where were the hovels of
the destitute, and I found mansions of am
ber and ivory and go'.d, but no tear did I
see or sigh hear.
1 was bewildered, and I sat under the
shadow of a great tree, and I said, "What
am I and whence comes all this?" And
at that moment there came from among
the leaves, skipping up the flowery path
and across the sparkling waters, a very
bright and sparkling group, and when I
aw their step I knew it, and when 1 heard
4heir voices I thought I knew them, but
their apparel was so different from any
thing 1 had ever een I bowed, a stranger
to stranger. But after awhile, when
they clapped hand and shouted, "Wei
come, welcome!" the mystery wo solved,
and I saw that time had passed and that
eternity had come and that God had
gathered us up into a higher home, and I
said, "Are all here?" And the voice of
innumerable generation answered, "All
here." And while tear of gladness were
raining down our cheek and the branches
of the Lebanon cedar were clapping their
hands and the tower ui the great city
were chiming their welcome we began to
laugh and sins and leap and shout, "Home,
home, home!
nsraa Nest la Maine Wands.
There are three known heron colo
nieB In New England. One of them la
on the plantation Just to the north ol
Sebec lake, Maine. On a point of land
reaching out Into th3 pond la a growth
of tall silver birches, and there are at
least 100 nests In the tops ot these
trees. The trees are tall without limba
for forty feet or more from the ground.
It Is a well V.nown tact that herons
never build a nest In a tree with limbs
much less tban forty feet from the
earth. These nests are constructed
from small sUcks, some up to an inch
in diameter. The nest Is at least two
feet across, and the egga are a trifle
smaller than a hon's egg, and of a pale
blue color. The old birds go long dls
tances on their foraging trips. In soma
cases forty and fifty miles. The birds
of this species about Moosebead lake
and around the ponds nines to ma
south all make their way to this par
ticular colony at night. Btandlng on
the point one can see the birds com
ing from all directions during the
period In which they feed their young.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL i
International Lesson Comments
August 25.
For
Subject: Abraham and Isaac, Oca. xxIL, l-U-OolJea
Text, rich. xl, l7,Memory
Verses, 6-8-CommeRtary
on the Day's Lemon.
1. "After these things." The things re
corded in the previous chapter regarding
Ha gar and Ishmael and their banishment.
'Did prove Abraham" (K. V.) "Not in
cite to sin (Jas. 1: 13), but. try, prove,
give occasion for the development of
faith." 1 Cor. 10: 13; Heh. 11: 17; James 1:
12. It is well to see that God confer
signal honor upon Ms when He thus test
pur hearts. Tempting i for the sake ol
leading men to evil; testing them is for the
purpose of making them better. The trials
of life are to prove what we are, to see il
we are fitted for larger things. "Here j
am." Ready at a moment's notice fot
God' service.
2. "Thine only son." His only son by
f-'nmlt, his legal wife. Had Abraham I
whole soul not been stayed simply on the
Lord he never could have yielded utiheai
tating obedience to such a sesrehing com
mand. Abraham desired earnestly to be
let into the mystery of redemption, and
God let him feel by experience what il
was to lose a beloved son. "Land of Mo
riali." A general phrase for the mountain
ous district of Jerusalem. This Moriah
was the same site upon which Solomon
built the temple, and Calvary was near by.
"For a burnt offering." Abraham was fix
ing amidst idolaters who sscriticcd theii
first born to their idols, and "Abraham
himself might not have been sure that ht
ought not to offer as eost'.y sacrifices as the
heathen did; but Cod at this time taught
him and his descendants not to offer hu
man sacrifices, and yet they were to retain
the spirit of sacrifice out of whic'.i thej
grew.
3. "Rose up ear'y." ' That there might
be no appearance of dc!ny or reiuctance on
his part ne made every preparation for the
sacrifice before setting out the materials,
the knife, the servants to convey them;
and he hud the painful secret pent up in
his bosom during the three days he wai
journeying to Moriah. He murmured not,
nor took counsel with flesh and blood.
He waited not to consult with arnh. nor
listen to the misgivings of li i own mind.
The command was clear and the obedience
prompt.
4. "The third day." I?eer-heha, Abra
hum's present home, was a town on the
southern border of Palestine, forty-five
miles south cf Jerusalem, and three clave
wai the usual time it would take them ti
make the journey. In the i throe days
journey there was time given for reflection:
thus the struggle of faith is not short ami
momentary, but prolonged. As this sacri
fice was typical of that of Christ, so here
may be a reference to the third day ol
His resurrection. "Saw the place." The
hill Moriah can be seen about three milet
distant by one coming from Bcer-sheoa.
6. "And worship." Perform a solemn
net of devotion which God requires
"Come again to you." This may have
been an expression of faith that God would
restore his son even if actually sacriiced.
Heb. II: 17-10. This reminds us o" oui
Lord in Gethse:ra-:e; goirg into such an
agony. He would not aumi't others to gc
with Him.
6. "Laid it upon I.-aac." Ir.ae carried
the wcod for tha b'init offering, so C.irist
carried the treo whereon He died (.Joh:i
l'J: 17); the binding of I sans was alsc
typical, for so Christ r,-as bound. Mitt.
27: 2. "Took tho fire." That it, carrying
in hia hand the vessel containing the coa'.r
of fire.
7. "Where is the lamb?" The tender
ness of this scene is only to be surpassed
by those of Gethseniane and Calvary
N'othing can be conceived more affection
ate and a'fecting.
8. "Will provide." The patriarch spo'ite
prophetically, and referred to that Lani'n
of God who in tho fulness of time should
take away the sin of the world, and ol
whom Isaac wns a most expressive tye.
The giving tr by the father of his only
and well beloved son (v. 3: John 3: l'.t).
the ready submission of the son (v. 0;
John 10: 15). the bearing of the fn'tru
ment of death by the victim (v. 8; John
Id: 17). the violent death consented to (v.
10; John 10: IB), the deliverance f"om
death on the third day (vs. 4. 12; Matt
20: 10), can not be mere accidental coin
cidences. 9. "Bound Isaac, his son." Had not
the patriarch been sustained by the full
consciousness of acting in obedience tc
God's will, the effort must have been toi
freat for human endurance; and had not
saac. then probably twenty-five years ol
age, displayed equal faith in submitting,
this great trial could not have been gone
through.
10. "Stretched forth his hand." The
deed is virtually done when the vi II shows
'firm determination. God who looketii uuon
the heurt regardeth the sacrifice as already
made. He will take the wiil for the deed,
but never the deed for the will.
11. "The angel of the Lord." The very
person who was represented by this of
fering; the Lord Jesus, who call Himslf
Jehovah (v. 16), and on His own authority
renews the promises of the covenant. Le
was ever the great Medi'itor between God
and man. "Called unto him." When we
cannot see on any side a way of escape,
then God come and often shows us a
wonderful deliverance.
12. "Lay not thine hand." The sacrifice
was virtually offered, the intention, the
purpose to do it. was shown i l all sincerity
and fulness. "I know." The. best evi
dence of our fearing God is our being wiil
ing to honor Him with that which is dear
est to us, and to part with nil for Kim
"That thou fearest God." This was faith
in action. Paul says that Abraham wa
accepted by faith, and James says he wa
accepted by works of obedience, but these
are only two sides of the same thing, foi
not a single act of faith can be named but
what bss in it the nature of obedience.
13. "Behold a ram." Though Christ
wa typified by Isaac, yet the offering ol
him wo suspended, and in the meantime
the sacrifice of beasts was accepted s s
pledge of that expiation for sin which
should be made in "the fulness of time;"
the great principle of the Mosaic economy
was the acceptance of animal sacrifices in
stead of human.
14. "Jehovah-jireh." That i. "TW
Lord will see, or provide." "It shall be
seen." The meaning is that this was the
spot of God' choice for the manifestation
of Hi visible presence, where the sane
tuary should be erected and sacrifices of
fered. After the ram had been offered
the angel of the Lord again called tc
Abraham and renewed the covenant fiat
God had made with him. Abraham then
returned to Beer-sheba.
A k'ubmarln a Dwelling Pines.
According to a London newspaper a
submarine dwelling Is going to ba
built by a well-known Marseilles Arm
for the Countess de Montague; and tb
experiment Is an especially Interesting
one, for should It prove, successful the
solving of the submarine problem will
have been intimately bound np with
a latter-day romance. The countess
Is said to have become weary of thq
world and that society in which she
was a brilliant leader, and to have
made up her mind that she will re
nounce the ordinary pleasures of life.
So, having plenty of money and the
gift of Invention, the countess U busy
preparing to seek seclusion beneath
the surface- of the Mediterranean In
the submarine sbe Is having built. The
countess knows that the gossips of; the
Paris boulevards, when they relate her
story, call ber Le M;terle, hence the
has given her boat that name.
nrhawsiinfls ttt .Catholl. lustf tntlnna.
An adjudication In tkd estate nf
I Michael Corr, who died some time ago
' In Philadelphia, awards $112,000 to
varlmiB Catholic charitable institutions
in that city.
CPW0RTH LEAOl,E MEET,NQ T0P,CS
August Zj-"Daily Prayer." Dan. vl. 10-11;
Pus. Iv. 16-17; Pur. xixlv. i-7.
rn!l,v pr.ircr Is ns nofessnry to tlrt
mil (m dully- nlr If to the body, rnn-I'-l
vens n horn liccniise ho prnyed.
Then he pnivi',1 liccnusp he wnf I
hero. Tin- richest fruit of Imvld'g e.T
perlcnic grew on (hp plant of prayer
Knlih nml prayer mtc the soul's
"fci h rs" with whh h.lr finds flod. As
tho licnrls action Is ti n healthy body,
so Is prayer ti n healthy soul. It
must keep on pnl'ie:. When prnyci
the soul can no lunger advance.
I'rn.vcr I tu-ocvcsc.
t'liiinictcristlcs of prayer. He
must believe thai Gol will reward
righteousness. Without faith It Is
Impossible to please (Jod. The pray
er must represent spiritual energy.
Laziness cannot prevail. The pray,
luc limn must work If lie would secure
the cooperation of (Sod. Prayer is
never mighty till It reaches the point
of white-heat earnestness. Jacob
snlil. "I will not let Thee go." Jesus,
continued all nlulit In prayer.
The pniltt of prayer. Prayer Is
profitable becaitye it Is addressed to an
infinitely noun it ml Intelllpeut Person.
We do not pray to n theory, nor a
creed. Our prayers are not addressed
to an Impersonal force. Nor do we
pray to some material thing. The evi
dences of the personality of God are
nmple ami overwhelming. There is a
personal God who made the world
that measures off the seasons-. A
world without a God to make It is ns
unihiiikiilile ns a wagon without a
man to make It. The loving neart of
God responds to every human cry of
suffering atul need. Prayer Is profit
able In spite of the mystery connected
with It. The communication of mind
Is mysterious everywhere.
Pra.Ver Is profitable because It Is the
doing of something by man which
leads to the doing of something by the
Lord. God Is constantly doing certain
tilings because we do certain other
tilings, A man plants an orchard.
Hut God m-ike.s It grow, nnd bloom,
nnd bear fruit. God made the or
chard grow there because the man
planted It there. The law Is that Coil
does not grow the harvest unless some
man sows the seed. If muu does this
God will do that.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
August Z5"Daily Prayer." Psa. xxxiv. 1-22
Scripture Verses. Psa. xxxvll. 5;
Ixll. S; Mutt. xxl. 2'J: Mark xt. U4;
John xv. 7; Heb. xl. C; Jas. 1. !, (!; Psa.
cxix. 58, 170; cxlil. (1; exliii. 0.
Lesson Thoughts.
Our prayers are not answered be
cause of any merit of ours, but when
In humility of spirit we plead the mer
it of Jesus Christ.
"Prayer Is thought winded with de
votion." Not eiegance of expression
makes n good prayer, but earnestness
and sincerity of heart.
Prayer Is not a pleadln? with God
for blessings lie is unwilling to grant,
lint rather n grateful expression of
our wlllTiisness to accept what he Is
waiting lovingly to bestow.
Selections.
Prayer makes the darkened clouds
wlilulraw;
Prayer climbs tlie ladder Jacob saw.
Gives exercise 1o faith and love,
ItrlngH every blessing from above,
licstrnlnlug prayer, we cease to light;
Prayer makes the Christian's armor
bright;
And Satan tremble when ho sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.
Do not think that God (ares only
about what you call great things. The
mother's love makes anything Ihat
can happen to the child n great thin
l her. The love of God for you
makes anything touching you a miiig
worthy the motive of his love. Con
cerning everything, by prayer and sup
plication, with thanksgiving, make
known your bequests to him.
In one of the great cities of tne Con
tinent the regalia are not kept behln.l
Iron bars ns In t lie tower of London,
but He upon nu open table. It might
appear thai any ruthless baud could
wrench any Jewel or diamond from
tho glittering a nay, a ml yet no inau
dare put out his hand to take one, be
cause that table Is charged with a
strung current of electricity, ion
cannot see the protection, but tucre It
Is. Ami so !f a man will only live In
daily and hourly communication with
Christ, the devil can do more touch
liiin lliau u thief can touch those Jew
els. RAMS' HORN BLASTS
OO many ser
mons have much
description with
no prescription.
God disappoints
us of our best
that H may ap
yolnt us a bet
ter. The value of
your life mav de
pend on your es
timate of Its leis
ure. There 1b no rest for the Idler.
If there Is no judgment there Is no
Justice In the universe.
When men ask for advice they fre
quently desire approval.
There Is nothing so dignified as
death.
A man cannot afford to despise hon
ors till be has earned them.
The best treasures of life are found
In the ore rather than as nuggets.
The furnace of adversity withers
false friendships and welds true ones.
Floods of tears are a waste unless
they turn the wheels of Improvement.
Envy never falls to be grieved at
another's happiness and happy at his
grief.
Humouring sin Is no way to heal It.
Culture without conscience gives
manners without morals.
The true warrior does not wait to
be an officer before he will fight.
He who makes A parade ot piety
usually has no resources ot religion.
God will take the will for the deed
at times but never the deed for the
will. -
Brooklyn (N. Y.) women demand 2
cent fare for street car passengers
when a seat is not available.
Better Days: Beggar (preliminari
ly); "I've seen bettor days." B-isy
man: "So have I; locks as it it bad
set in tor an all-day drlxile. Con
foundedly unpleasant. Got to take 'em
as they come, though. Tra, la, la."
Thirteen Knits In tains.
"I have never been able 1o compre
hend," said a veteran numismatist, "why
so many Americans should believe that
a vast amount of ill luck centers around
the number thirteen.
"The commonest of nil our silver
coins is the twenty-five cent piece. In
the words 'quarter dollar' are thirteen
letters. Thirteen letters compose 'K
Pluribus Unum.' In the tail of the
eagle are thirteen feathers, and in the
shield arc thirteen lines. There are
thirteen stars and thirteen arrow heads,
while if you examine the bird through
a microscope you will find thirteen
feathers in his wing."
Tli merlin and the f'ultnn. ,
This is the story nf William ':he weary
pilgrim and Jcrcboam the Puritan.
"Prithee." (pioth William, "the guer
don of a hand-out or cold bite."
"Nay, nay, friend." quoth Jcrcboam,
"for this is the Sabbath day!"
"Do unto others as ye would they do
unto yon!" quoth William. "Verily, a
pood rule, friend."
"Verily, friend." quoth Jercboatn.
"And being good it works not upon the
Sabbath!"
Now this could William not gainsay,
for it chanced that he, too, was brought
up in flic strictest sect o( the Pharisees.
1I1 a Thought for the Agi-il.
An old woman was climbing off a
Second avenue car nt the bridge yes
terday afternoon when a truck driver
who was in a hurry jelled to the con
ductor to get the car out ol his way.
"Give a couple of rings and get out
of this." he shouted.
"1 guess you wouldn't be in such a
hurry if it was your old mother who
was getting off the car,' retorted the
conductor, and the passengers agreed
that he had the better of the dialogue.
Dyeing is ns simple as washing when yon
lltlO PUTKAM FiLELESS X)TKS. Bold by il
druggists.
In a new work on antelopes there are
descriptions of 133 distinct species, about
120 of which are African,
Four and one-half million people use
London's swimming-baths yearly.
(lest lor the llowcla.
No matter what alls you, headache to a
cancer, yon will never get well until your
bowols are, put riiht. Cascarits help nature,
euro you without a gripe or pain, produoo
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cas
c abets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal botes, every tablet has C.O.C,
stamped on it. Beware of imitations.
Although there are 214.000 acres of
orchards in England, yet that country buy
100,000 tons of apples abroad in a year.
State or Onio, City or Toledo, I
Lucas Codmtt. f
Frank 3. Cdcnet makes oath that he is the
senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Cheney A
Co., doing business inthe City ofToledo, County
and HtAte aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of one HUNinti dollars for each
and every coka of catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cons.
Khans J. Citkney.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed in mv
pi CHei.ee, this Oth day of December,
A. D 1830. A. W. Gleasos.
Aofory ruouc.
Hull's Catarrh Curo Is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surface
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney i, Co., Toledo, O.
Hold by Dnn;gintB, 75c.
Hall's Family 1111s aro the best.
Ten days' intimate acquaintance with
poverty will satisfy any man for the rest
of his natural life.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after tk-st dav's use of Dr. Kline's Qreat
i Nor re llesturer. $2 trial bottle and treatisa free
Dr. K. H. Ki.inb, Ltd., H31 Arch St., l'bila. Pa
The Mexican velcano Ponoeatapctl was
utilized as a source of sulphur more than
400 years ago,
Jlrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reJnoes inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a botel
The shipping trade along the Central
American coasts ia to a large extent in
German hands.
I am sure ruo i uure ror consumption sar i
my uia inreo years ago. .ubs. i boxai nos
ins, Maple Bt Norwich, N.Y., Fob. 17, 1900.
The Phoenician and the Greeks were
the first to p. ace much dependence on
naval warfare.
See advt. of Sxithdeal'i Business Colleoe
There arc 40,000 ill and bedridden pau
per in English workhouses.
, His Opinion.
Bridget O'Hoolahan (reading) Sure,
the paper says a pace-maker got his
I head and collar-bone bliroken at a bicy
I cle race to-day.
(J Hoolahan (emphatically) W ell,
b' gob, ony man deserves to hov his
head smashed who is fool enough to be
a pace-maker an' interfere wid a good
foight!
Lost Hair
" My hair came out by the hand
ful, and the gray hairs began to
creep in. I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor,
and it stopped the hair from com
ing out and restored the color."
Mrs.M, D.Gray, No. Salem, Mass.
There's a pleasure in
offering such a prepara
tion as Ayer's Hair Vigor.
It gives to all who use it
such satisfaction. The
hair becomes thicker,
longer, softer, and more
glossy. And you feel so
secure in using such an
old and reliable prepara
tion. ' tl.Msboul. AlllrsffUts.
If your druggist cannot supply yon,
send us on dollar and wo will express
you a bottle. Bo sura and give the nam
of your nearest iress office. Address,
w v. a i iv., ioweu.
Your Tongue
If it's coated, your stomach
is bad, your liver is out of
order. Ayer's Pills will clean
your tongue, cure your dys
pepsia, make your liver right.
Easy to take, easy to operate.
28c. All druggists.
Want your muuitauba or beard a baauUiul
brown or rich blaek f Tbso. u.
BUCKINGHAM'S DYEfthiY&r
M f t. o rnuoui.Ts,, nil f H -1 ft CO. , W".' , HM.
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Cougu bjrup. TaMiua 0hmL vse I I
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SEAFARING MEN
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We wsnt Intelligent Men and Women as
Traveling Representatives cr Local Managers;
satury lfx to s year and all expenses,
according to experience inu Huu-.iy.
wsnt Iocs! repreteiitatleea ; saja'y r to i J a
week and cotuoiiiwlon, depending upon the time
Oevoted. Hena stamp for mil paiiicuiure aaa
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THK BELL COMPANY. Philadelphia, Pa.
WILLS PILLS BIGGEST OFrEI EVE 1 MADE.
Fnvnnlv If) Cintm WO Will mq I tr HtlT P. O. i t-
(lrPK, lo cUvb' trBdtinrmt of tlin be.; in lkttt m
Firth, and put you m tlie titwk hiw to m ik Mon
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ic. n. win .iietiidin tniniiiir r.Hi.
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CARTRIDGES IN ALL CALIBERS
from .22 to .50 loaded with either Black or Smokeless Powder
always give entire satisfaction. They are made and loaded in a
modern manner, by exact machinery operated by skilled experts.
THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOLD t ALWAYS ASK FOR THEM
mi iswmwi Li n. i iwuss aw
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Illions of Mothers
T TSE CUTICURA SOAP, assisted by Coticura Ointrr.-nt,
II the great skin cure, for preserving:, purifying;, and beauti
fying the skin of infants and children, for rashes, Itching?,
and chafing:, for cleansing; the scalp of crusts, scales, and .dan
druff, and the stopping- of falling- hair, for softening-, whitening-,
and soothing; red, rough, and sore hands, and for all the purposes
of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Millions of Women use Cuticura
Soap in the form of baths for annoying- irritations, inflammations,
and excoriations, for too free or offensive perspiration, in the form
of washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative,
antiseptic purposes which readily suggest themselves to women,
especially mothers. No amount of persuasion can induce those
who have once used these great skin purifiers and beautifiers to
use any others, especially for preserving and purifying the skin,
scalp, and hair of Infants and children. Cuticura Soap combines
delicate emollient properties derived from Cuticura, the great skin
cure, with tlx purest of cleansing ingredients and the most refresh
ing of flower odours. No other medicated soap Is to be compared
with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp,
hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, how
ever expensrve, Is to be compared with it for all the purposes of
the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP
at ONE PRICE, the BEST skin and complexion soap, the BEST
toilet and baby soap in the world.
eamalat external nnd Internal Treatment for tvery Humour,
Zl', , p OnDslstlni f t;ul;uK SOAJ-, to rleaniw the skia of crusts and
r t tr rWT-WJi sr-aiev win .oitoa mi.
f. I I it Till.. I lnatuntlr &llv Ihuiiur.
' I 1 1! lHaLI InMuotlr allay Ih'Uiig.maamiiiaUoii, and ti-tituUuu.auU sooiiio ana
bwl, iiJ cuvmuHA
.' TH2 BET nrlug. and biualliatlnK akin, ajalp, and blood Sumuura, HUh Iu.
-ruJr whan all la falls. Bold Ihrounboul Uie : world. VlnlUi Itojmi: K. Nkh wkuy A
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vui.. Bo.ton,lU. B. A. .... . .
SHOES
t'XIO.t MADE.
nr "s
t or More Than Oiiartrr of a Centner
The reputation of W. L. Dotiitla 3.00
nd t-.i.no shoes for stvle, comfort and
wear iiM excelled all other r.ikw aold at
these prices. This excellent reputation hs
been won b mc rit alone. W-1. Douals
shoes have to Hire better aqtisfsetion than
other r J.OO and f3.ftO shoes because hi
reputation for the best S3. 00 and S3.M
hoes must be maintained. The atandnrd
has always been placed so high that tho
wesrer receives more value for his money
In the W. L. Douglas S3.00 and S3. 60
shoes thsn he oan Ret elsewhere.
W.L. Uouzlas soils more S3. OO and 1 3.60
hoe than any other two manufacturer.
IV, L. Ovuglut f.00 Qilt e Lin
cannot OS etjuallea at any prrs.
W. .C Douflmm $3.00 mnti 03. BO
ioa mmdo o thm mmmm high
prmda iomtharm umt $n $A mnd $U
mhom mnd mrm Jumt mm flroocf.
Bold by the beet shoe dealers everywhere.
InniHl upon hnvltifr W. I Ioiir;laa Mho
with prihg mid prlf-c BtinpfJ on bottom.
How to Orilfr Uy III nil. If V. K IVnixIm
tho? r not iold In your town. md oriT ditrct tc
factory. Rime rnt miywliift on rftviut. of prioa and
i t n. m mi it i.rn:u iur rurrmKF. m j
custom dfpni Intent wilt make you a
l:urmni riii niuai 93 firm 9ft cntv
lum ninuc fikm?, in Myif. in ana
wenr. Tt:o nwrumrtntirnt of
loot ft'fwon-n 011 model ; ptato
Uy 14- aftii(-u : lzniKl width
uBiirtiiT worn; piain or
iuui vr 1 1 pin POIPS.
ill ffiinranifm
i ry a iair.
Fa! rolar KUl 1.
Catalog ftr. W. E.. Juualua, lirockton. Ma
it Pirs
TO ADVERTISE IN
THIS PAPER. B N U.I4.
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