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barns on the seventh (ley. the peroration o
t 'the whete Vent, wee to be it ahout, at whiol.
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f C1111.0k. On the warning' oWr4 day
he is beano the enemy , . two
long lines or battle. The '• opens
With great slaughter, but th eitamites
soon diecover something. They say Teat
s is Joshua; that is the man who couquerea
Q the spring freshet and knocked down t e
e stone wall and destroyed the pity of
1 There is no use fighting." And they sound
a retreat, and as they begin to retreat
Joshua nd his host sprIng upon them ate
a panther, Plersuing them over the rock,
and as these Canaanites wieli sprained
ankles and gashed foreheads retreat the
catapults of the sky pour a volley of hait.
stones into the valley, and, all the artillery
of the heavens with bullets of iron poands
t the Conaanites against the ledges of Beth -
t Beth-horen.
"Oh,.1, says Joshua, "this is surely a
victory!" Bat do you not see the sun Is
going down? Those Amorites are going
to get away, after ale and they will come
up some ,her time ani bother us and
perhaps destroy us." "See, the sun is go-
ing down. Oh, for a longer day thau has
ever been seen in this climate! What is
the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in
an apopleptie flt? Joshes, raised his face,
radiantly. No. He is in prayer. Look
out when a good mita makes the Lord his
with prayer, He looks at the descending
sun over Gideon and at the faint crescent
of the moon, for you know the queen of
the night sometimes will linger arounit
the palaoes of the day. Pointing one
hand at the deecentli tee sun anti the other
hand at the faint creeeent of the moon in
the name of that God who shaped 'the
worlds and moves the worlds, he cries,
"Sun, stand thou still u.pon Gideon; and
thou, moon, in the yailey of Ajalon."
nd they stood still. Whether it was by re-
traction of the sem' s rays or by the stop-
eing of the whole planetary system I do
ilet know, aud do not care. I leave it to
the C;bristian scientists and the infidel
scientists to settle that question, while I
tell you I have seen the same thing.
Mat!" say you "not the sun standieg
still?" Yes. The same tnieacle le. per-
formed nowadays. The wicked do not
live out half then Sky and their sun sets at
noon. Bu. let a matt stare out and battee
fur God aud the trete. and against site
tual the day- of his usettanoes Is prolonged
and prolonged and. rapionged.
John Summerfield was a consumptive
Metre:dist. He looked fearfully white, 3.
am -told, as he stood ti old Sands street
church in this city, preaching Christ, antt
when he stood on the annivereary plate
farm in New York rate:ding for the Bible
un il unusual and tatlenown glories rolled
forth from. , hat boa. Whea he was dyine
his pillow was brushed with the wings ca
the angel from the skies, the messenger
that God sent down. Did John Summer -
field's sun: -e. ? Did John Sumnierffele's
ilea tied? Oh, no. Ile lives on ia his
burning utter:stele in hehalf of the Chris-
tian church. The sca stood still.
Robert McCheyne wets a consumptive
Presbyterian. It was said when he preach-
ed he coughed. so it waned as if he woula
*ever preach again. T1s name Is fragrant
in all Christendom, that name mightier
to -day than it was ever in his living pres-
ence. He lived to preach the gospel in
Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee but he
wen away very ea ly. He preached him-
eolf into :he grave. Has Robert Mc-
Gheynces sun set? Is -Robert MoCheyne's
nay eat al? Oh, no! His dying delirium
was filled. with prayer, and w en he lif ed
his head to pronoteita the benediction
anon his country he seemed to say: "1
eennot die now. I want to live on and.
on. I want to start an influen es for the
elaurch that evil: never cease. I am only
BO years of age. Sun of my Christian
ministry, stand still over Scotland. And
it stood still.
But it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 110 years old. Waehington went down
the Potomac anti at In ouraVernon closed
his days. Well ngton died peacefully at
Apsley House. Now, where shell J )shua
est? Why, he is to have his greatest
battle now. After 110 years he has to
meet a king who has more subjects than
all the eresent population of the earth, his
throne a pyramid of skulls, his paxterre.
the graveyards and the cemeteries of the
world, his chariot, the WOuld.'s hearse—
the king of terrors. But if this is Joshua's
greatest beetle it is going to be Joshua's
greatest victory. He gathers his friends
around him and gives his valedictory, and
it is full of remin. scence. Young men
tell what they are goieg to ao, old men
tell what they have done
And as you have heard a grandfather
or a great-grandfather, seated by the even-
ing fire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown,
and then lift th • crutca or staff as though
it were a musket, to fight, end show how
the old battles were won --so Joshua
gathers his friends amend his dying couch
and he tells them the story of what he has
been th ough and as he lies there, his
white locks snowing down on his wrink-
le forehead, I wonder if God has kept his
promise all the way through—the promise
of the t xt. As he lies there he tells the
story one, two, three tim s you have
heard old people tell a story two or three
times over—and he aaswers: "I go the
way of all the earth, and not one word. of
the promise has failed, not one word there-
of has failed; all lets wine to pass, not one
word thereof has failed." And then he
turns to his family, ae e dying panne will
and says: "Choose now whom you will
serve, the God of Ierael, or the Goa of the
Amorites. • As for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord." A dying parent
cannot be reckless or thoughtless in re-
gard to his children. Consent to part with
them at the door of the tomb we cannot.
By the cradle in whi a their infancy was
Jailed, by the bosom In which they first
lay by the blood of the covenant, by theGod
jeshuat it shal. not Le. We will not part
we cannot 1 art. Jehovah, Jireh, we take
thee at thy promise. "I will be a God to
Theo and Thy seed after thee."
Dead, the eld chieften must be laid out.
Handle him very gently; that sacred body
is over 110 years of age. Lay him ) ut,
stretch out those feet that weeked dry
shod the parted :Jordan. Close those lips
which helped blow the blast at which the
walls of 'Macho fell. Fold the arrnethae
ilfted spear toward the doomed city of Al
Fold lb right over the heart that exulted
when the five kings fee. But whore shall
we get burnished graalte for the head -
Stone and the footstene? I bethink my -
elf now. I imagine thdt for the head It
tile)." be the sun that stood still upon.
Gideon, and. for the foot, the moon that
stoo.i still ha the valley of Ajalort.
LORIKON SY NIT. 4r, Will:
LLt
11,11*
Joshua the Soldier mutt Ile ro- rno
lug r til o .sordon,,,rao Ovokkt
tory—Tbe Unreal -
In the Embury eteniertalehertah oLug,:
autieenee oesemblett to hstett to the 111113)311
Kennon of teletplain T. DeWitt Talmage
of the Thirtettuth Regiment N. ta. S. N.
Y. The members of the regent= twit -
pied the 'leafy of the &male Dr. Tat -
:Map Omen for his subjeat -The Greatest
Soldier of all Time." the text being Josh-
ua, 1, 6, "There shall not mut num be able
to stand before thee Mb the days of thy
life."
Looking about for a subjeat that might
be most helpful and inspiriug for you, and
our veterans here Assembled, and the citi-
zens gathered to -night with their good
wishes I bane concluded, to hold up before
you the neatest soldier of all time—Josh-
me the liero of my text.
He was a magnificent tighter, but he
always fought on the right side, and he
never fought unless God told. hini to light.
In my text he gets his military egnipment,
and as one would think it must have
been plumed helmet for the brow, greaves
of brass for the feet, haborgeon for the
breast. "There shall not any man be able
to stand benne thee all the days of thy
life." "Oh," you say, "anybody could
have courage with such a backing up as
that ." Why, my friends, I have to tell
you that tho God of the universe and the
Chieftain of eternity promises to do just
as much for as as for him. All the er-
sources of etert ity are pledged in our
behalf if we go out in the service of God
and no more than that was offered to
Joshua. God ft -alined this promise of my
text, although Joshua's first battle was
with the spring freshet, and the next with
a stone wall, and the next leading on a
regiment of whipped. cowards, and the
next battle, against darkness, wheeling
the sun and the moon into his battalion,
and the last against the king of terrors,
death—five great victories,.
For the most part when the general of
an army starts out in a conflict he would
like to have a small battle in order that
he may get his courage up and he may
rally his troops and get them drilled for
greater conflicts; but this first under-
taking of Joshua was greater than the
levelling of Fort Pulaski, or the thunder-
ing down cd Gibraltar, or the overthrow
of the Bastille. It was the crossing of the
Jordan at the dine of the spring freshet.
The snows of Mount Lebanon had just
been melting and they poured down into
the valley, and the whole valley was a
raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand
on one bank and they look across and see
Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh
and say, "Aha! aha! they cannot disturb
us until the freshets fall; it is impossible
for them to reach use" But after awhile
they look across the water and the see a
movement in the army of Joshua. They
say: "What's the matter now? Why there
must be a panic among these troops and
they are going to fly, or perhaps they are
going to try to march across the river
Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic." But
Joshua, the chieftian of the text, looks at
the army and cries. "Forward, march!"
and they start for the bank of Jordan.
Onemile ahead go two priests carrying
a glittering box 4 feet long and 2 feet wide
It is the ark of the covenant. And they
come down, and no sooner do they just
tenon the rim of the water with their feet
than by an almighty flee Jordan parts.
The army of Joshua marches right on
without getting their feet wet over the
bottom of the river, a lath of chalk and
broken shells anti pebbles until they get
to the other bank. Then they lay hold 'of
the oleanders and tamarisks and willows
and pull themselves up a bank 30 or 40
feet high, and having gained the other
beak they clap their shields and their
cymbals and sing the • raises of the God
of Joshua. But no sooner have they
reached the bank than the waters begin
to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush
they break loose from their strange an-
chorage. Out yonder they have stopped;
30 miles up yonder they halted. On this
side the waters roll off toward the salt sea.
But as the hand of the Lord. God is taken
away from the thus uplifted waters—
waters perhaps uplifted half a mile—as
the Almighty hand is taken away, those
waters rush down, and. some of the unbe-
lieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what
a misfortune! Why could. not those
waters have staid parted? Because, per-
haps we may want to go back. 0 Lord,
we are engaged in arisky business. Those
Canaanites may eat as up. How if we
want to go back? Would it not have been
a more complete miracle if the Lord had
parted the waters to let us come through
and kept them parted to let us go back if
we are defeated?" My friends, God makes
no provision for a. Christian's reteat He
clears the path all the way to Canaan. To
go back is to die. The 'same gatekeepers
that swing back the amethystine and ora-
stalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel
pass through now swing shut the amethy-
stine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to
keep the Israelites from goingback. I de-
clare it in your hearing to -day, victory
ahead, water 40 feet deep in the rear.
Triu.mph ahead, Canaan ahead; behind
you death and, darkness and woe and hell.
But you say, "Why didn't those Canaan-
ites, when they had such a splendid chance
—standing on the top of the bank 30 to 40
feet high, completely demolish those poor
Israelites down in the river?" I will tell
you why. God had made a promise and
Ile was going to keep it. "There shall not
any man be able to stand before thee all
the days of thy life."
But this is no place for the host to
stop. Joshua. gives the command' "Foe -
ward, mareh In the distance there is a
long grove of trees, and at the end of the
grove is a city of arbors, a city with walls
seeming to roach to the heavens, to but-
tress the very sky. It is the great metro -
polls that commande flee mountain pass.
It is Jericho. That city was afterward
captured by Pompey, and it -was afterward
eaptured by Herod the Gebat, and it was
afterward captured by the Mohamme-
dans, but this campaign the Lord plans.
There shall be no swords, no shields, no
battering rams. There shall be onIe• one
weapon of war and that a ram's horn,
. The horn ef the slain ram was somames
taken, and holesswere prmotured in it, and
then the eau.sician would put the bastru-
:meat te his lips and he would run his
;fingers aver this rude rtaisical bastrament
and mats a great deal of sweet harmony
;for the people. That was the only kind of
weapon. Seven priests Were to take these
;rade radio musical instruteents and they
; were to go around the oity every day for
;six days ---once a day for siZ days and
! then on the seventh they wore to go
; around blowing these reede musical in -
statements! seven times, and then at the
these of the seventh bit:Wing of the ram's
he seven prieste with rude raustoal
,511til,e7eltel gtr,ebaliwokev..alLe sleauld. titueble ereat eett
olby wall
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.tort;tinti.t,elititt,seteittet4sn.ct111:erlotuttl the
1W3 tat a V Wet, AlSiftleirhibrer.okeNolt;ns
; enact the wail—not so m1,1011 AS a loosen%
netta not ea muell as a piece of mortar
lest trent its place, "There," 8 the
I tutbelteving Israelites, "didn't I tell you
ee?" Why, those ministers are fools. The
a going around the city yl11 those
neuelatia lustrumeuts and expecting in
that way to destroy it! Joshua has been
spoiled; he thinks beeause he bas over
thrown and. destroyed the spring trestle
he van overthrow th,e stonewall. Whyti
is not philosophise Don't you see there
15 no relation between the blowing of thee
musical instruments and. the knoeleing
down of the wall. It isn't philosophy.
Aud I suppose there were naany w senores
who stood with their brows knitted, and
with tho forefinger of the right band to
the focefinger of the left hand, aeguing it
all out, and. showng it was not possible
that sach a cause should produce such an
effect. And I suppose that night in the
encampment there was plenty of philoso-
phy and caricature, and if Joshua had
eon nominatecl for any Itigh military
position he would not have got many
votes. Joshua's stock was down, The
second day the pr ests blowing the musi-
cal instruments go around the city, and
a failure. Third day, and a failure;
fourth clay, and a failure; fifth day, and a
failure; sixth day, and a failure. The
seventh day comes, the elienaeterie day,
Joshua is up early in the morning and
examines the troops, walks all around
about, looles at the city wall. The priests
start to niake the anoint of tt o city. They
go all arounil once, all around twice,three
times, four thnes, five times, six times,
seven times, and a failure.
There is only one more thing to do, and
that is to utter a great shout. I see the
Israelitish army straightening themselves
up, filing their lanebs for a vociferation
such as was never heard before and never
ard after. Joshua feels that the hour
has come and he cries out to his host,
"Shout, for the Lord hath given you the
city!" All the people begin to cry,
"Down Jericho, Down Jericho!" and the
long li»e of solid masonry begins to
quiver and to move and to rook. Stand
from under. She .falls. Crash go the walls, '
the temple, the tower, the palace; the air
is blackened with the dust. The huzza of
the victorious Israelites and groan of the
conquered Canaanites commingle, and
Joshua, standing there in the debris of
the wall h ars a voice saying, "There shall
not any man be able to stand before thee
all tbe clays of thy life."
But Joshua's troops may not halt here.
The command is, "Forward, March!"
There is the city ofAi; it must be token;
how shall it be taken? A scouting part
comes back and. says, "Joshua, we can do
that without you; it is going to be a very
easy job e you just stay here while we go
and captare it." They march with a
small regiment in front of that city.. The
men of Ai look at them and give oneyell,
and the Israelites run like reindeers. The
northern troops at Bull Run did not make
such rapid time as those Israelites with
the Canrianites after them. They never
out su h a serry figure as when they were
on the retreat. Anybody that goes out in
the battles of God with only half a foree,
instead of yam' taking the men of Ai' the
men of 4.1 will take you. Look attho
church of God on the ) etreat The Bor-
nesian cannibals ate up Munson, the mis-
sionary. "Fall back," saiel a great many
Christian. people. "Fall back, oh Church
of God: Borneo will never be taken.
Don't you see the Bornesian cannibals
have eaten up Munson, the missionary?"
Tyndall delivers his lecture at the Univer-
sity of Glasgow and a great many people
say: "Fall beak, oh, Church of God!
Don't you see that Christian philosophy
is going to be overcome by worldly philo-
sophy? Fall back!" Geoloay plunges its
crowbar into the mountains, and there
aro a great many people wh say:
"Scientific investigation is going to over-
throw the Mosaic account of the creation.
Fall back!" ' Friends of God have never
any right to fall back.
Joshua fa Is on his face in chagrin. It
is the only time you ever see the back of
his head. He falls on his faee and begins
to whine, and. he says: "0 L rd. God,
wherefore hest Thou at all brought this
poop e over Jordan to deliver us into the
hands of the Amorites, to destroy us?
Would to God we had. been eontent and
dwelt on the other stile. of Jordan! For
the Canaanitos and all the inhabitants
of the land shall hear of it and shall en-
viron us round. and out off our name from
the iarth.
I am very glad J oshua said that. Be-
fore it seemed as if he were a -upernatural
being, and therefore could not be an ex-
ample to as, but I find he is a man and
only a man. just as sometimes you find.
a mao under severe opposition, or in
a bad state of physical health, or worn out
with overwork, lying down and sigh ng
Mout everything being defeated. I am
encouraged Nv hen I hear this cry of Joshua
as he lies in the dust.
God comes and rouses him. How does
he rouse him? By complimentary aspos-
trophe? No. He says: "Get thee up.
Wherefore liest thou upon t y face?"
Joshua rises, and I warrant you with a
mortified look. But his old courage comes
back. The fact was that was not his
battle. If he had bee, in it he would have
gone to victory. He says, "Now let as go
up and capture the city of 4.1; let us go
up right away."
Thea march on. He puts the majority
of troops 'behind a ledge of rocks in the
night, and then he sends a coinparatively
sm al battalion up in front of the city.
The men of Ai come out with a shout
This battalion in strategem 1111 bactle, and
when all the inen.of .IN) have left the , city
and are in pursuit of this scattered or
seemingly scattered batt lion, Joshua
t mds on a rock—I see his locks flying in
the wind as he points his spear toward
the doomed city, and that is the signal.
Tho men rtteh out from behtnd the rooks
and take the city, and it es put to he
torch, and then these Israelites in the city
mare down and the flying battalion. of
Israelites return, and between these two
waves of Israelitish prowest the teen of
Ai are destroyed, and the Israelites gain
the victory, and while I see the curling
stnoke of that destroyed oily on the sky,
and while I hear the huzza of the Israel-
ites and. the groan of the Canaanites,
Joehua hears something louder than it all
ringing and eohoing throtigh his soul
"There shall not any man be able to
stand legate thee alL the daye of thy life."
Ha this is no place for the host of
Joshua to stop. "Forward, mareh!" cries
:ahem to the troops. There is the city. of
Gideon. It has put its .11 tinder the pro-
tection of joshua. They sent word,
waltere are five kings after us; they aro
going to destroy us, sena troops quick;
send us help right away," Joshua has a
three days' march mote then double
tic AV Aliments.
"Strange, ain't in tho new kinds of ail-
ments folks has?" remarked Mr. Simri
Smith, after reading his mews/tepee,
"Now I've boon a -reading an tdvertlse-
rrient in hem of a new medicate, and it
says it's dreadful good for a sluggish
liver."
"Liver trouble ain't 00 new disease,
responded Mrs. Strath. I remember
esta.hdfather having Hyde trouble when I
wasn't more'n 10 yeat old."
"X wasea-saying that this meaicine wee
good an sluggish liver, Martha Aim, alai
What beats me is how them singe gets in
Side the bivr, attyhow."
MRS. BLANC AND ALGY.
Was a Good Plan, But It Did Not Tura
Out act elle Rad Anticipate(,
It was a small house, just largo enough
to shelter early domestic bliss; the curtains
ab the windows WOrE) of aggressive newness
and their parting displayed an affluence
of distressing brie a-brao that AMA, plain-
ly, wedding preeents, while the light dis-
order of the apartments betrayed the un-
learued housekeeper. It was night, and,
not a footfall broke the stillness of the
scene. Sacidenly, as the clock stretele 12,
the front door opened and female figure
appeared. She proceeded to affix a white
objea to the door bell. "There," she re-
marked, "I told Algernon that I should
close the house promplty at 12 on club
nights and that no amount of bonbons
would tarn mo from my purpose. He will
SOS now that I have kept my word" And
then the white object swung loose, dis-
playing the fact that it was a sound as of
shooting bolts and bell wires being detach-
ed, and then of female footsteps rapidly
ascending the stairs.
"Now," observed the youug Mrs.131ano,
"1 think that I have gotten the better of
Algernon at last," and then she calmly
fell asleep.
It might have been, one hour later, it
night haye been three, when she was
awakened by the sound of falling crockery
somewbeee in the lower part of the house.
A. cold Wall crept down her spine.
"It can't be the cat," she whispered,
"for I shut her out; I was determined to
do all the things that Algernon usually
forgets. Ala the pantry windoeel I forgot
to see if it was looked,"
The noise grew louder; someone was evi-
dently stumbling about in the dark.
Oh, Algernon " she moaned with chat-
tering teeth, "what if you come home and
find the wife you should have cherished—
and did not—cold and lifeless, and all her
pretty things stolen, too?"
Slow footsteps along the lower hallwere
now audible; the burglar was stridently in
no haste and not at all afraid. Perhaps the
white object, fluttering from the bell, had
told him that the nature,' proteetoe of the
mansion was absent
."It would serve him just right to come
home and find me murdered," she groan-
ed; "but it wouldn't —servo me right at
all. It is all Algy's fault, of coarse, for
being away; but, oh, dean perhaps the
burlgar wouldn't have known if I hadn't
put his night robe on the door bell."
He was coming upstairs now. Site tried
to scream, bat of all the ear -piercing
shrieks emitted erstwhile at sight of the
harmless mouse of domesticity not ellen-
ma.ined. Suddenly a new thought came to
her. Summing up all her energy she tore
from her hair the crimping pins whia
adorned it.
"If I am to be murdered," she thought,
"I won't let that horrid Laura Biggs have
the satisfaction of knowing they were
found on me. The mean thing always
said my hair didn't wave naturally."
She strained her ears for the sound of
her husband's footsteps on the quiet staeot,
but only heard. the burglar entering the
room. Hoping yet to escape, she feigned
slumber. The burglar boldly struck a
match and lit the gas.
"Confound the pantry window," he was
saying, "thereisn't an inch of skin left on
mymarsionu.
sound of the familiar voice the vid-
tim sat up in bed, all wrath forgotten.
"Oh, Ala, clear, I'm so glad you've
come," she exclaimed.
And what her husband replied was:
"The next time, madam, that you lock
the front door and hang my night robe on
the bell, there will bo a first-class divorce
suit in this block. Do you /tear me?"
And young Mrs. Blanc ineeklyrespond-
ed "Yes, Algy, I do.P
At the Bank of England.
The site of the Bank of Englaaid bears
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This sum, if capitalized at 3 per cent.,
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In its early days the bank employed
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At the present time the total number of
employes is about 1,500, the salaries and
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yeas; and the pensions to nearly 450 000
The present price of Bank of England
£100 shares is £332, making the capital of
R14,553,000, worth 448,315, (390, or about
$240,000,000 The usual clividend distrib-
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equal to that of the British Government,
as the yield on bank shares at the enhanc-
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—2% per cent.
A. Rat In Church.
The Wesloya:ns of London have great
distinction in that eity just new because
one of their chapels was invaded a few
Sundays ago by a large, gray -whiskered
rat, who provoked a aleturbance and
brought bout a scene that, so far as
known, is absolutely unprecedented in re-
ligious annals. It, was directly in the midst
of the services that the rodent appeared
and for time he passed unnoticed, con-
fining himself to sarreptitious wander-
ings in the pews. At last lie ventured
out into the aisle, and then he was seen
of all Men and women, Encouraged by
the excitement he was creating, he gambol-
led fearlessly about leaping from seat to
seat and. wildly waving his tail: The con-
gregation was at once in ferment and the
service came to an abrupt stop. .A ruled
with long sticks, the vergers and ushers
tried to chase him out, he dodged them,
keeping well beyond their reach. Finally
08 11 last resort, an officer 'of the church
who was full of expedient, slipped away
and borrowed a small energetic terriet,
What the vergers had been unable to do tho
terrier did. It Was a long and exciting
chase, during his progeess the rat showed
evidence of Much military stattogy.
Eventaally he was brought to hay direaly
under thee communion table and 10 a feve
8e000d5 more the dog bad shaken the life
out of him. Then the ladies, who had
been standittg on pow seats, tuneable"
down their frocks and settled themselves,
the chapel resumecl its normal condition
of quietude and. the services were continu-
ed.
; Not Mitch:
Platikingtal (in restaterrinteeeeeShall 3.
order emile onions' for you?"
aeon Blumer --"You forget, oid man,
that my wife is away."
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What is
,
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
am 1 Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for ,!Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
It As Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by
IVIIINons of Mothers. Castoria, destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and 'Mad Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cut:cs constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Caso
toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's loriend.
Castoria.
"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chil-
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children."
Dn. G. 0. Common,
Lowell, Mass.
" Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in-
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, byforeingopium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves."
Da. J. F. KINCHELOE,
Conway, Ark.
The Centaur ' Company, T7
Castoria.
"Castoria is so well adapted to children thab
1 recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me."
H. AROItER, H. D.,
111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Our physicians iu the children's depart-
ment have spoken highly of their experi.
enee in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
ftivor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL ASO DISPENSAAT,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN c. Sarni, Pres.,
Murray Street, New York City,
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STORIES OF MONTE CARLO.
Some of Them True, Many False, But It 11
Highly Interesting.
But who should this be, sipping some
iced verniouth at the marble table but an
old friend whom I will call Mr. Specta-
tor? He lives at Monte Carlo; he has
passed a score of seasons here; 'he has
plenty of money; he goes to the Casino
every day and every evening, and he
never pays a cent ' It is his occupation
in life to be an observer of things and to
mark the ways of Mall and womankind.
In the summer the will mark them at
Aix-les-Bains, at Lausanne, or at Trou-
villa. He knows everything about what
is going on just now at "Monty ;" what
' Russian princess pawned her diamonds
last week, aad what Cuban sugar planter
did not die of apoplexy at the Rotel
Carmbole but poisoned himself with prus-
sic acid. "He was a fool, sir," quoth
Mr. Spectator, "Why didn't he go to the
Administration? Why didn'the make
his declaration? They knew well enough
othaitsleiof0
elitaec1lost 200,000 francs in the
m
days. They would have
, paid his traveling and hotel expenses back
to Paris, or back to Brazil for tbe matter
of that. He was a fool, sir 1"
Mr. Spectator went on to explain that
when a cleaned -out player made a candid
admission of Lis impecuniosity the
administration gave him a sum of
. money sufficient to defray his journey by
railway to the place whence he came and
his incidental expenses en route. He
mentioned one case .12, which a whole
family of five persons were allowed
fifteen louts-- apiette to take thern from
Moine Carlo to London, the solo condi-
tion attached to the largesse being that
the recipient should not re-enter thetCas-
ino unless he or sha recouped the Admin-
istration for their outlay. In the case
which he cited, 0130 of the party, a lady,
who had neenone farther than Nice, re-
ceived some weeks tifterwards a handsome
rernittanee from England. She went
bacIt blithely to "Monty," repaid the
fifteen Ionia re-entered the Casino, and
backing the dean dernier, not forgetting,
zero, NV011 a300. "Yuri aro not to be-
lieve," added Mr. Sreetator, "a tithe of
the seusational storiet printed about ruin-
ed gamesters hanging t heinsolves to trees
in the gardens, or blowing out their
brctius in the reading -room. Tho meta -
1 ty of these canards aro sot on foot by ob-
ecure French newspapers which have not
been subrontionecl or bribed by the Ad-
ininisti•ation to puff Monte Carlo.
One of , the pleasantest characteristics
of my friend Mr. Spectator is that every
time ypu meet him he has a fresh story to
tell you about an infallible system for
winning at roulette, and this time he re-
galed me with a succinct narrative of
what I may call the "Wellington boot sys-
tem." Capt. Backem had played for
Irany yenrs a large number of systems,
rend by the time he was live -and -forty had
playea away a hautisome fortune. A
bappy theught occurred to him. He al-
ways wore Wellington boots. His capital
Was just five louts. This he ehanged
into five -franc pieces, and he rever staked
more than one piece at a time, and if he
won he withdrew his ' stakes after the
third coup. His winnings he carefully
placed in a side pocket, and whenever
he had won four pieces he changed them
into a louts and 4ipped the coin into one
of his bOots. He played for seven cense-
outive.hours botore his stock capital was
exhausted. Then he returned to Nice,
soznevebat heavy of step. and, drawing
off bis boots, found that he had won a
hundred louts. "Th is was two years ,
ago," continued Mr. Spectator, "and
ouly last. week I found Backum at a
third class hotel at Nice. Be was in a
dressing gown and slippers, and looking
by no Moms cheerful. "How about the
Wellington boot system?" I asked.
"Utter collapse," he replied. "Confound-
ed run of bad luck." "And the boots?"
event on "The bouts?" he replied. "/
pawned them yesterday atone:ion." I
So ' th Is is 'Mon Ty' ' 311 full swing;
."Monty," with its ups anti downs, its
ceaseless whirl or gayety atid dissipation.,
There is no rest at Monte Carlo. When
you are tired of plea there are dramatic
performances; there axe concerts; there Is
a pivot shooting; and in the spring and
summer there is plehty of yachting. But
all thesci are only side issues'. The Grand
Trunknitte of Monte Carlo leads to the
aTnerp dlaeyofbMy convbmovoine. llutitsincgrowtodie. dnnwingeh;
which they levee not maned and it is th
Bishop Taylor's ‘I'ork 10 A fries. -
In an interview with Bishop Taylor re-
cently about his work in Africa Ile said
that the results were fairly satisfactory.
It is believed to be an absolute essential
that the people =apt the Christian re.
ligion.
"ling Hedge's case is an example,"
said the Bishop. "Ho had been fairly
well educated years ago ; had lived among
the wbites on the west coast. Ile wile,
in a sense, civilized; lint lie was no a
Christian. Well, he ',vont back to lae ina
tle tribe, threw a -way his clothes and wore
the single garment of his tribe. He took
seven wives, and in all ways became n
so wage. .
"Recently he became converted, put
away all his wives but one, dressed like
a white men. and eteel all his influence
to help the inieeiona ries.''
"Which wife did he keep, Bishop," 1
asked. "The first one, or the last one?"
"He kept the one that was—the one
that was most—suitable. Haat of them
had her home, and was comfortably sit-
uated. Most of them had children. He
selected the one that had no children,
that seemed to care most for tarn, that
was most attentive. He called all his
people together and told them he had ac-
cepted Christ's laws. One of those laws
was that 0, man could have but one wife.
Re said—'I have seven wives. Chief Do
there has seven. We can have but one.' "
"And it is a court ate of unmeasured,
perhaps immeasuniale, wealth," said
the Bishop. "The soil will produce mar-
vellously. The temperature is from sixty
to ninety degrees the :year round. There
is no winter. It is a land of Iron. There
s But2 ll1 nl coal."
hls bis interest Is only in-
cidental. The man's heart and soul are
in the missionary work, and his whole
church watches and applauds hien and re-
poses abundant faith in his wisdom.
Ni Doctors' BUNIm, fTlwecl en.
Swedish doctors send no bills to theta
patients. Wile!) you shall pay your physi-
cian is left entirely to your own choice.
The rich pay bini liberally, whether they
have need of his services or not, if he has
been once retained by them. The poor
pay him a snutll sam and the voey pour
pay him nothing. Yet he vie! ts the poor
as faithfully as the rtub. On the last day
of the year you put Into an envelope ace
dressed to your physician a sum of money
you think not only Sililielent to
compensate hint, but in ace:valance •vvith
your own positiou la life, and enclosing
your card with the money send the en-
velope by a servant to your doctor.,
*When By was sic; we gave her Castorie.
When sne was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When sho became 3118s, she clung to Castoria,
When elle had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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