rrosious bros.
brosious LUOS.
CHRISTMAS HERE
ALREADY.
All Kii)J oj PrpseijLj For
Ali) ar)d Boy.
The Goad Sensible Kind.
t'liristnuis Trees, from 1V. to S1.0.
llai-i i.fall kinds fide, to $o.0O.
I '.ip- of all kinds iOe. to J?o. 00.
Mi n - Suit- hum ..".( Ml to S'J'U'ti.
Men's ( v -ivnat- from .".00 to S'J.'i.OO.
I'miVs iSuits and Overcoats, fiom $l..0 lo .?7. "0.
Moil's Knit Jackets from Sl.MO t. sf.".00.
Siit oases from i0 cents to $11' ."0.
M ru"s Trousers liom $1.01) to $1 00.
Trunks, from Jf'J.'.'S i., $-J.oo.
(iloM-.o every known kind 10 o n!-, to $10.0.1.
I inlnvllas, from ."tV. lo $7. "'.
Sliirts, t'roni -l."ii'ciiis to $;i.00.
Fa i ii 'V an.l tuil dress vests $1.00 to $o.0i).
s iiokiiiij Jacket ami House Cn.it. $:'. ','S to $S.0O.
I I iii.ikrl i lili't'-. (loin cents in $;.oi(.
. n' Silk II -t $." oo $t'i.oO ami $00.
Mics Skating (aN, $:!..0.
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sUNbUrY, pa.
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Christmas is Doming
Hut on wont know the difference between Xuias
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:o:Gbpitra Goods,
Anil the place to buv them is at
EBRIGHT'S, ALINE, PA.,
1 h.tve the (,'hokost ami Finest Line of Holiday
Hoods to be found any where in the country, consisting of
Taney Vases, Mngs, Toys, Christmas Tree Decorations,
.Faperjiiul Tinsel Decorations, Mechanical Toys and a
. 1 We have a few Ladies' andMisses Coats left that
ne will sell at a reduced price, a lull line of Ladies' Dress
Skirts :iud Fur Collars, and our line of Dry (ioods and
Notions. I'nderwear and Hosierv,
RUBBER GOODS, SHOES,
Men's and boys Clothing.
I - o'UivK-u an d j'!i-'.-s a low :t the lowest. Come
vi at id ; you will le pleased with the disjday of
i-i. I L.n.k 'iij my many patrons' for past patronage
itiiij a i-:,:iim:UH'" of the same, I remain,
FOHEST MOXARCHS.
Dr. Talmage Draws Inspiration
From the Woods.
i
The Tree of the Woodlands Faralik
the Theme For Hit Srrinoa.
Urn of Kntere Sjrmbulle
of Spiritual Life.
ICopyrlght. 1903, by Louis Klopsch.
CIlll'AttO, Nov. In tli'.H scrinoi
the preacher takes us Into the forests
and f roin the life ami death of the wood
land munarehs draws an eloquent les
son tlint li rich In iinturnl beauty and
full of spiritual helpfulness. The text
Is Kcclesiastes 11. a, "In the place where
the tree falleth there It shall be."
Every Intelligent Ktndent has been
Impressed with the inexorable se
quences of natural causes. If a man
Bhoulil allow his row boat to be pushed
out intft the nihil!:'' of the roiirlni;,
li
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tliii;:s itself over
i.: ,:i power on
V I y Tlie hu
;V.l i uoimli to
r.. ,'he oiisweep-
:i.;-r than the
i. It' a tna M
f the KifTol
! . ji from Its
1 In- whirled
: was at last
h. up of 1111-
ii struck the
at: rail ion of
: -d that body
rc. in.' by the
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rushing river wb!
Niagara fails, I.,
en il h inn !il .i. I
man arm i i:
stem that awl 'i
illK ru-li of i!. .:;'.!
WollM lie I
Btailil.l'-, HI" n
tower hi i' :i
summit, hi
round . .'H
daslioil i : ! ; c -rcconiy.a'
I.
ra 11 li lieiow
gravitation wlii
down ioii'iI lit 1
Vibraliiitf ana as II is l.y ihe w ncs of
a bird. U i 1 1. launched fioin such a
height, could arrest its fall in midair
and tlv liiulier and 1 i i 1 n r until it ills
iippcanil into the blue sky of the heav
ens' dome. There is all inevitable se
quence in nature's laws. There Is a
natural ipienee in spiritual laws. If
a man plants the riht seeil for a spir
itual harvest, he will reap a spiritual
harvest. If he plants sinful seeds, he
shall reap a sinful harvest. Further
more, by the same kind of reasoning,
after a man's earthly life's work is
done, whether it be well or badly done,
it is done forever. It 1 liko n tree
wliii li hus fallen to the north or to the
south. "In the place where the tree
falleth there it shall be."
I am Koine to use for my pulpit the
trunk of a fallen tree upon which we
have rested in our wandorliiKx through
the woods. 1 do not cure whether this
tree lies upon the steep mountain side
covered with moss and creeping Ivy,
whether it spans some brook or wheth
er it lies at the foot of a Kreat precipice
over which it has tumbled. The only
thill); I do care about is that this trunk
fhould have fallen of its own accord.
Hy that 1 mean rt has not been cut
down by a woodman's ax. When we
study the laws of nature as symbols of
the spiritual life we must study them
in their simplicity. We must study
them as nature was studied by King
Solomon, who evidently spent as much
time roamins over the Judean hills as
he did in the Jerusalem palace.
A tree may live to be very old: but,
after all. there must come a time when
tlie tree's life shall cease to exist.
Tin u. atti r it totters and falls, it is al
:i ili ad tree. What lias been done
by tli:.t tree ha been done forever.
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1ihi r.i 1 1, l.,t,', al:i
p.-il have livid
Ad: 11. -Mi has ,!, I;.!,
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Sewing Machines u0;-
i !E;? LOT RECEIVED n,,-ni-,tllllitr
white. UjUUi Liiniti
Wheeler, o
. - , , A 'I50."' Choice & Comprehensive
pcclalty f om Sib up. Ljne of
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Diamonds,
Jewelry,
also
Holiday-Gifts
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W't: inr'Jially invito vou Vj x
tin-
.-ler'.i'.(tis niadt now niav I li.-j't
witli us until Christmas.
Kves MMftitifi'.-allv txaiuinJ f'rt
'il '.'iiurj:.
FRANK GAS
m
Lp-to-date Jewtler and Optician,
249 Market Square,
Sunbury, Pa.
Lti'-iii'Jiji ,
MAKKLT J
Geo. W. Hackett,
bl.N'IiUKV, JJA.
Alien A. Orr, xiunty Treasurer, of
Mittliu Atuuty, wife tbd on, of Lewiu
tuwii; H. H. Hurler mid fauiily, of
hunuury: Liuu Noll and wife, of jen
irtourg. tod tLe J-liUr kiid wifv tit
tLeir 'i'Ljtukgiviug Didmut ut l)t. J.
W. Orwijr'a.
en known to live
nine are even sup
r.iiini years. lr.
d that the baobab
tr of Afrieji M'laeti'.r.es lives to be
,r,.ii j ear old. The explorer lie t'an
d";;.. has estimated that the Taxdiutn
diiiel.uui lives even to a greater aye
i.an that. A Tree's ase can be esfl-u.ati-d
by sai:i' the trunk in two and
tvi;:it:ia: the - that are found in
the w.nvt. every riiis representing a
year. I'.ut. though the tree may live
e.'" years or even loiici-r. there comes
a t:n." when that tree iuut fall. Then
a fallen tree i always a dead tree. So
tin-re !i.ut come a time when a man's
ear:L!y life i done, and it is done for
ever. "In the piaee where the tree
falMh there it shall be."
it nor a startliiiL' thought tTint aft
er a man heart om e cvases to beat he
raiinnt ihatu-e Hiiythiuir in his past
life? Is it not a startlir.j: thought that
a iluii who is prK-alent of ihe t'n led
States, with an army and navy and
fifty trillions of people back of him. a
Abraham Lincoln had. can wilhin a
few hour l.e a i oid corpse and unable
to i.V'T a word"; 'ne niht sitting In
Ford's theater: a nhort time afterward
wiiii Kdwin Stanton bending over hiia
iiud -:iyiriir "IIk is cone: we must have
his work to be Judged by the i en
turieV" Is it not im overwhelmln;,' faet
that a man with all the mental powers
of a 'iladi-tone can not arrange his pa
ITS after he ig nine dead, but hud to
leave them all to his literary executor?
Oh. how often we have heard thi sen
te:n e :u a house where there has lately
been a sad funeral: "If I could only
bring blui back for a few moments to
nth him what he would like me to do
tbout this matter:" But the fallen tree
it a dead tree. What that tree ba
done Is done forever and can never b
undone. What has been left undone li
left undone forever.
A dying man's last gasp is even more
piguinouut and overwhelming than a
newborn baby's lirst cry. One la the
hing. the other the betting, sun. The
cm- ie the first word of story which
Is about lo be told and may be told
well; the other U tke last word of tlie
last sentence of the last pagp, when
the story is ended. One la the reveille
founding the call to arms; the other 1
a tattoo U-ati-n upon a muffled drum
by the side of un open grare. One Is
the spring blossom, the other a falling
enowfiake. One Is a bird's not sung
aiiioug the growing leaves; the other Ig
the snapping of a trunk when the old
tree la about to make its last plUDge
and go down with a crash.
Living man ma once ka?t been
Uoug at the great tree (or wkoav life
"V-orjrp P. Morris pleaded with elo-
:t verse, but when the human being
. id he cannot even lift Ulnm-lf into
it-..nn which uiny have Imv-mi made
.mi l,le tree truuk which his own
id hewed down. He cannot even
..'....i oi:t to liis own grave, but has to
o earned there like a helpless log be-
n; dragged to the daui. ' One second
after the pulse lias ceased to beat he
c-ienot raise hia little flayer oue inch
or . Vi'i ;e o:'e word in bin last will and
.ps. anient any more than a fallen tne
tru-ili. ir It had the power of thought,
on id lift itself and stand uimn the
ragged stump which the buried roots 1 u'"t
are still anchoring in the ground and
live 1U life over again. Choice may be
given to the living man choice to llva
right or wrong; choice to reach after
the higher or the lower lift but the
time will come when maa, like the
tree, which may live mairf centuries
beyond the ane of man, shall fall.
Then there will lie no power of choice.
What has been done by him Is done
and never can be changed. What has
been left undone by him will be left
undone and will never, never be done
by him as long as eternity lasls. A
fallen log symbolizes it.
The fallen tree Is a dead tree, which
nearly always falls In the direction it
has grown. I say nearly, because there
are exceptions, which, though rare, do
occur. Once in a great while a tree
does not fall In the direction In which
it has grown. Hut these exceptions are
very rare. They are as exceptional as
the man who has always lived a had
life and at the last moment is convert
ed by a deathbed repentance and who Is
thereby able to fall, when the clock is
striking l'J, Into the outstretched arms
of a loving Christ. Most trees -indeed.
It might be said practically all trees
when they die fall in the direction in
which they have grown. About the
tree's trunk and above the tree's
branches and underneath the tree's
roots are the great ever Influencing
laws of specific gravity,
a little to the right. It
ably falls to the right; If to the left, it
falls to the left.
When a man conies to die, as a rule,
the only thing he ran do is to die.
When the messenger conies, lie has not
any Inclination to think about any
thing else but dying. If the fatal dis
ease gnaws at the vitals for many
months and perhaps years, the doctor,
and nurses and loved ones conceal tho
truth from the patient for fear of de
pressing him. Or death comes like a
stroke of lightning out of a clear sky.
It comes, as it did to my father, one
moment clear brained and on a preach
ing tour, the next upon a deathbed and
unable to speak a word.
lieatb often comes suddenly as a
thief, as a watch In the night A man
dies as a tree falls. He dies as he has
lived. Among all the Bible records
there Is but one exception to this rule.
The pages of the Hlble contain only
one account of a deathbed repentance.
The fallen tree is a dead tree, the In
fluence of whose past life never dies.
Trees have an earthly mission. They
are mighty factors in the planet's dally
life. In the celebration of Arbor day
by the schools and educational institu
tions it would be appropriate, although
it is not especially enjoined by statute,
to couple with study of trees lessons
on our birds and the great importance
of their protection. The yi iing people
cannot have too great an apple, lalioii
of nature or too keen a no of the re
lation between 1 1 I- niai'.v liea'llies and
utilities. Atmospheric changes are
more or les- iniiiienced by tree-.
1'rollgllts and t'le-hets ale often caused
by the lack of trees. Many countries
of the far cast have been absolutely
ruined by the ruthless destruction of
tlie fotvMs. I'roin an inhabitable coun
try they have been changed into groat
wastes of arid deserts. So the inlltieiice
ilie that of a tree.
The branches are too heavy. The root
re too wide to be lifted and moved.
The Imperfections of trees may be the
nione readily recognizable In their old
gre. btit the Influences which caused
the tree to grow to the north or to the
south nearly always do their work for
giHid or evil when the trees-are hardly
more ttyn small saplings. If this fart
bo true. Is It not of utmost Importance
that parents should carefully look after
, the work of rearing their children?
I ViiltlifV lum'tln T .. ,1,1 til-.. I-
just one word to yon. Yon are apt to
think that tlie wSod of yith does not
to much. I want to tell you
that you are now forming the habits
that will grow stronger and stronger
s the years roll on. The bark of the
tree is the place where the life is sup
posed to exist. Hut if the Inside of the
tree, or the woodeu part, is allowed to
be tunneled by a worm the Inside of
j the tree will soon bo eaten out. Tlirn
the whole tree will soon totter and fill'.
' One small sinful habit can destroy th"
i liiiuian heart. One little tug In youth
j in the wrung direction can pull oft lh
branches of truth and purity and love
ai'd honor and make a lopsided tree,
j What you do now w ill decide the moral
; character of jour future. Trees l,mu
years old are neither more nor less
, than the fully developed and expanded
perfections and inipci f vtinns of a tree
only four, live, ten, twenty, thirty
years old. Nearly nil Ihe hardened
n
One dose of Ayer's Chentt
Pectoral at bedtime preveiil
night coughs of child,:
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doctor's medicine for an
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ill the penitentiary committed their I'nvc u tn-ert ! in film-uium i
lirst crime when they were llothlii'.'
more than boys under twenty years of
age. Many a murderer has started on a
quick journey for the gallows by whet
ting his taste for blood when as a child
he tortured a dog or a caged rat.
Hut though a fallen tree Is a dead
tree, which nearly always falls In the
way it has grown, a living tree, no
matter how young or old, can become
an Ingrafted tree, drafting may be
aci-omplishcd in many different ways.
If a tree leans 1 1,1 bodding grafting a hud is selected.
almost Invarl- 111011 u strong young branch Is cut
life
of a human
tleVer dies. Its good or evil lives oil
and on. long albr the human tree has
fall-li.
Earthly demise would not be appall
ing if when a man dbil the bad he did
while upon the earth should die with
him. Hut the trouble is that the bad
lives on as well as the good. The won
derful book of Kugene Sue called "The
Wandering Jew" is founded upon a
weil known Koman legend. It runs
that when Christ had been condemned
in I'ilate's judgment ball the Jewish
doorkeeper struck at him and cried:
"Move on, man! Move on faster! Why
dost thou linger? Move on!" With
that the condemnid Christ turned and
said, "I will go, but thou shalt remain
until I come." And so. says the legend,
the brutal Jewish doorkcucr wanders
up and down the world, begging God
for death, but he cannot die. He can
not die. Though that is only a legend.
It Is a solemn truth that every good
word we have spoken or evil deed we
have done lives on after we are dead.
It lives on In the lives of others with
whom we come In contact. We live
on in the good we have done. Then we
are like that beautiful tree mentioned
in an Easter fable whose branches
were laden with apples of solid gold
and Its leaves covered with silver bells.
When the leaves of that tree were
shaken by the soft winds those hells
would begin to chime the sweetest
music, and that would be the signal
for the ioor and the starving to come
and gather the falling fruit. Or we
shall live on after we are dead In the
evil we have done to our neighbor.
Down through the centuries has the
evil been perpetuated of that lirst sin,
when a tempted man and woman
plucked the fruit hanging from ihe
branch of a tree. So through all time
the influence of our lives for nA or
evil shall goon bringing forth fruit.
There is another significant reason
why the dead tree nearly always falls
la the way It has grown - the direction
1s determined by tlie Intlie s wl.; h
were at work upon ! young' r lift
The proverb declares Hint "old trees
cannot bs transplanted." The knots
re too big- The trunk Is too bent our ln
crosswise with a sharp knife. Then
the bud Is placed upon the bare branch
and the four pieces of bark are Joined
at the bud's base and the wound Is cov
ered over with Japanese matting. So
the young human trees may be ingraft
ed. They can have Christ's perfections
in all their freshness and fragrance
made to grow into them. They can
grow Into the Christian life so gradu
ally and sweetly that they will not he
able to tell the exact moment of their
conversion. They will be like that
young girl who was asked on Joining
the church when she commenced to
love the Lord Jesus. "Why," she an
swered, "I never commenced to love
the Saviour. I feel that I have always
loved 111 in.
liut there is another way of grafting.
There is the sprouting grafting. Uy
this process whole limbs will be cut off
and new limbs from other trees will be
placed Into the fork shaped crotches.
If necessary nothing need be left but
the trunk of. the old tree. .This wos
the way Christ's, 'life was ingrafted
into raid's. This was the way Baxter
and llunyan and Jerry . McAuley and
Harry Monroe and the -seven-deviled
Mary of ancient and modern times
have he. n converted. Whole branches
of sin, which have been growing for
many years upon these sinful trunks,
have been cut off. (iiiarled and worm
eaten and disease producing branches,
which have only produced poisonous
leaves of sin, have been lopped off, and
into those sinful trunks have been In
grafted the lon.T, healthy, growing
branches of the tree of life. My broth
er, from the oldest and the weakest
and the poorest and the most twisted
of human trees there is slill hope that
the branches of the beams of the cross
; can be ingrafted in them If they are
only willing to have chopped off their
branches of sin and to let Christ do
the ingrafting.
j Hut there is one thought of my text
which ought to be emphasized. I do
j not believe many people hare stopped
to fully consider it. All fallen trees are
dead trees. Yes. Hut some trees which
are not fallen may be dead trees also.
j As we have said, the whole life of the
i tree Is In the bark or the outside of the
tree. There the sap (lows up and down.
There the connection is made between
the roots of the tree and the leaves.
1 If that bark can be once broken so that
the sap cannot flow, then the tree dies.
A short distance from my late country
home a farm hand became angry at his
employer. One night he took a knife
and went Into the orchard and cut a
circle of the bark off each tree. In one
night the man killed between fifty and
sixty trees. For this crime he wos
sent to Jail. And, oh, my brother, can
It be that sonic? one whom I am now
addressing shall soon be a dead tree to
Christ, although he Is not a fallen tree?
Can it be that, though receiving the
gospel invitation again and again, you
are going to let Satan take a knife and
circle about the bark or the heart of
your spiritual life? Then, Indeed, you
will lie dead to all heavenly pleas. You
will be dead to all the calls of the Holy
Kpirlt. You will have no conscience
left.
Would that Instead of being a dead
tree to Christ we could become a liv
ing tree In God! Arboriculturists de
clare that the roots are Just as wide
and strong underneath the ground as
the branches of the tree growing over
head. I myself in climbing a moun
tain have seen a tree which by the
strength of its roots bus been able to
grow upon tlie side of a precipice. Let
us as living trees sink our roots deep
and fasten I hem about tlie Calvary
Idn k. I't us lift our branches high,
that our IcHfy hands limy be cleansed
with showers of heavenly benedictions.
Then when the time comes for tht hu
man tree to fall Christ will lift us up
and carry us above to beoome one of
the plllarj of the heavenly temple, as
h ones carried his own croks toward
Calvary. Upon tkat cross b died far
i a tj
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made arrangements w lu i. l v
can oiler our trade 1") lu-auiilit
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piesenl. Kenieinber wcoulyUft
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JSutter 18
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Onions 75
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