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Rev. Dr. Talmage Discusses a Delicate and
Interesting Subjec.t.
14• Deplores Sectarian Differences in Domestic Oircies,Oautierts
Parents as to Rs Effects on Their Children's
Religious PrgSnegt,S,
Wasbington, 'Tune 11.—In this sermon. unconverted companion ts willing to go,
Dr. Tabnage discusses a topic which will if he or she will go to no other, You et
interest aumestio eireles everywhere. The the connubial partnerehip area Christtan.
text Is Genesi% 411, b: "Let there be no You are safe for the snies. Then it le
Wife. Peeer thee, betvrern Me and thee, your Arse duty to secure tbe etereal
and between my herdmen and tby herd- &day of your lifetime associate. Is not
men. Is not the wbole land before thee?" the everlasting welfare of your we
Uncle and neploew. Abram and Lon penitent or your husband tMlcenitent ot
birth pions both millionaires, and with more importance than yew church, rine-
'itch large flocks of bleating amen and tionthin? Is oot the condition at your
lowing rattle ;bat their herdreen got into companion for the nese guseeriellent of
fight, perhaps aeon the bese pasture, years a mightier consideration, to yea
or about the best warer privilege, or than the gratification of your eeelesiastie
because the cow' of one got hooked by the oat taste for 40 or 50 year st A man or a
horns et the other. Noe their poverty of woman who wonid stop belt .4 Minute to
0PPoetnniene but their weolth, was ebe weigh prefereocee as to wisether er she
cause of coptraeersy between these two bad better go with the uncenveeted come
men. To nevem. tbe glorious old Mena. panien to this or thee church or denten-
pi:atomism sheik. Sueb controverey seemed intielers hoe no religion at all and nerer
absurd. Ic was like two sbips quarreling has had, and I fen- never will heve, you
for sea room in tbe middle of into AtlantiO ars loaded up with what you suppose to
Ocean. There was 4 sea reach ot count be eeligion, but YOU are tike Captain
tirynneninfithis, vineyerds, barveete and
plenty ot room in illimitable areae.
• "Now," sees Abrein, "let us agree to
differ. Here are the mountain Marian
Wept by the tonic of sea breeze and with
wide reachtug prospeet, and tbere is the
plain of Jordan, wlth tropical luxuriance.
You may have eitber." Lon who Was The Q/91'101101** Doty.
not as rith as Abram and might have
been expected to take the second choice,
nada the first selectee°, and with a
modesty tbat must have made Abrane
smile said to bine:
"You may have the rooks and the fine
prospect; I will take the valley of the
Jordan, with all its Ineurianee ot corn-
eifferentpetite,and that you bave. both
been fed by the bread -of life, though
kneade4 by different bands in.. 4Ifferent
traYil and baked in different ovens. "But
bow about the children?" .I an often
sinned by sores of peanuts. La them ante
Mae their ovine oheice. They will groW
op with reverence or both the (tenet:tattle
*tion* represented by afatber and another
if youby bely lives comeneeld those
• tlenteniteattene. It the fettliee lives the
better Iffet they will Item Ma:emote fever.-
. able opiniona his .denombeetien. If the
mentee lives the better life, e.bey sdU
tikkViS be 'Mori* favorabljnio � he
denoudeatien, And some dee boththe
pareoth will, for at lease one service, go
tio the tame -therein The neigithore .will
my, "I wonteer white i gong en Miley,.
tot I saw our neighbor mad his wife, who
always go to different aerobes, going
arm in aree to the •same stinettmanet°
Well, I will tell you whae bas broughe
them together arm in arm to the same
altar. Something • YISIT important has
beppetied. Their . eon is tonloy uniting
witbthe thumb. Ile is Standing in the
aisle. taking the vows of .4 chrietiate
bad been SonnewhItt waywerd and gene
teetier and mother a good, deal of anxiety',
hut their prayers hese been enewerini be
his conversion, ond as be stands in the,
aisle and ttee minister of religion says,
"Do you ronseerete youreelf to the Goel
whomade and redeemed you. and 49 yen
premise te gemhim all yew days?"
end with manly .voiete be anewers, "X
dQ nt there IS an April shower in the We
wbere fetber and Maher sit and A ridge
bent Of Soy Weide mace leeth their soubi
arid mekee all differeneets o ereed tn
finitesimal„ntul the daugbter, Whet had
henbisher, who broughe beek from been eery worldly eon gay and theeithe.
veyeget of ellecovery 4 &shipload Of wbet bpi less, huts inn lite on the inner of pollee.
nepposed valuable teduerale, yet. •Iestitetth cratien, and :es tbe eunlight that
et being Feiner end gold, were teething Stibiteth sereams througlt the oburth
but throttler& eteriee et the field1 te be window and talle own her brow and •
learted Mit a* neatly 'weenies. .
ot worshippers, whlte robed arid coronet-
,
Wbae an officiator at MEN OF MARK
-the altar even
"the great, High Priest of our protest
610111." What walls, bung with tLaabet of Franco is 000
he caps -
tured ahleids and flogs, by the chureb
militant passel, op to be ehtlreh trittni-
phenti What dexologiee of all nationel
Coronet eio coronet, eymbel to cymbal.
beep to harp, organ to mon! Poll out
the ;remnant seep to recall the suffer-
ing:it past: Pall out the trumpet atcill
celebrate the yietoryi
When shall menet eyes tby neenen. built
walls
And pearly gates beholds
Tby buleverks, with selvation streog,
Arel itereete of shining gold?
Mighty God, in all thy realm is there
One Man or woman professing religtou,
yet so stolid, so unntted, so far gone unto
death thatthere would be any besitauey
in surrendening all preferences before
milt sin opportuuity of Salvation an
beAvenly reunion? It you, a Christian
• Vire, are an attendant upon any Outwit
fields, and the river to water thelinens,
, awl your unconvetteal busband (thee not
arid the genial climate, and the wealth. go there beeause he (thee not like its
immeasurable." So the contreverse wee weather, or Its. antone. or ita Architecture,
forever Settled„ and re et souied Abrarn or lei uncomfortable erowding, and goes
carried out the suggestion °t the text^ I not to any house of worehip, but would
"Let there be no strife. I Pray timer!! go if you would aceatopeny him some.
between me end theeawl bennfeen my where else, deluge your thumb relations.
herdmen and thy herdmen. Is not the Tune your uvulae:ton home with you to -
whole land before theee" .
I day. Say goodby to your friends in the
Wraith uf Iteliclood. 0
if neighboring VOWS and go 'with him re
Well, in thin the laet &eat of the any ono of a. hundred °bumbles till his
I
nineteenth venture*, and in this beautiful enul in .aced and he joins you in the
land, wineh wen relied America, after . menet to heaven. More iniportane than
Americus Yeepuclus, bet should. breve that ring on the tbird finger at your left
been called Coltunbus, after lee dissever- ii heed it le that your Heavenly Father
er. Colionnus, we have a wealth ot ; command, the angel of mercy concerning
religioue privilege tied opportunity' that ; your husband at his converelon. as in the
Is positively bewildering—ehtirchea of ell t parable of old. "Put a ring on his band "
sorts of eretide, anti of all kinds of gee- ' No letter of more importance ever came
ernmeut, and ell forme of worship, and to the great city of Corinth, situated on
all stylei of arebitoeture. What opulence what Wen Called tlin "Brehm of the e'en,"
of ecelesiostit el opportunity! Now, while and glistening with seulpture, and meted
In desolate i egieme there may be only one with a style of brass the magnificence of
church, in the opulent distriets of this which the following ages have not been
• country there is sueh a profusion that able to successfully imitate, end ever -
there ought to be no diniculty in making shadowed by the ..e.cro-Corintints, a Ant.
a selection. No light about vestments, or ress of rook 2,000 feet high—I say no
• between liturgical or nonliturgical letter aver came to that great city of
adherents, or as to baptismal modes, or a more importance than that letter in
bandful of water as compared 'with a which Paul puts the two startling Clue4-
riverful. If Abram pretties to devoll on tionS: "Wbat knowest thou, 0 wine
the heights, where he can only get a whether tbou shalt save thy husband? Or
eprinklieg front the clouds, let bine eon- how knowest thou, 0 man, whether thou
sent that Lot have all the Jordan in shalt save thy wifer"rhe dearest snort -
which to immerse himself. "Let there be flee on the part of the cam is cheap if lb
no strife, I pray thee, between xne and rescue tbe other. Better go to the small -
thee, and between any berdnien and the est, weakest, most insignificant Mouth
herdmen. 3s not the whole land before on earth and be copartners in eternal
thee?" bliss than pass your earthly membership
Especially is it fortunate when families ht most gorgeoasly attractive church
allow angry discussion at the breakfast while your companion stays outside of
or dinner or tea table as to which is the evangelical privilege. Better bave the
best church or denomination, one at one drowning savesi by a scow or a sloop than
end of the -table saying he could never let him or her go down while you sail by
endure the rigid doctrines of Presbyteri- in the gilded cabins of a Majestic or
anism, one at the other end responding Campania.
Shat she never could stand the forms of Sacrifice Preferences.
Episcopacy, and one at one side of the Second remark: If both of the married
table saying he did not understand how couples be Christians, but one is so
anybody could bear the noise in the naturally constructed that it is impossi-
Methodist church, and another declaring
ble to enjoy the services of a particular
all the Baptists bigots. There are hun- denomination and the other is not so
dreds of 'amities hopelessly split on sectarian or punctilious, let the one less
ecclesiasticism, and in the middle of every
particular go with the other who is very
discussion on such subjects there is a particular. As for myself, I feel as much
kindling of indignation, and it needs at home in one denomination of even -
thine old father ,ibrain to come and put gelical Christians as another, and I think
• his foot an the loaded fuse before the I must have been born very near the
• explosion takes plain and say: "Let there line. I like the solemn roll of the Bpis-
be no strife. I pray thee. between me
and thee, and between my herdmen and
• thy herdinen. Is not the whole /and be
tore thee?"
A Delicate Subject.
I undertake a subject never undertaken
by any other pulpit, for it is an exceed-
ingly delicate subject. and if not xightly
handled might give serious offense, but 1
ee approach it without the slightest trepida-
tion, for I an sure I have the divine
direction in the matters I propose to
present. It is a •tremendous question,
asked all over Christendom, often asked
---
with tears and sobs and beart breaks and
involving the peace of families, the
' eternal happiness of many souls. In mat-
ters of church attendance should the wife
go with the husband or the husband go
with the wife?
First, remember that all the evangeli-
cal churches have enough truth in them
th save the soul and prepare us for happi-
ness on earth and in heaven. I will go
with you into any well-seieoted theologi-
cal library, and I will show you sermons
from ministers in all denominations that
set forth man as a sinner and Christ as a
deliverer from sin and sorrow. That is
the whole gospel. Get that into your
gout, and you are fitted for •the belie and
the hereafter. There are differences, we
admit, and some denominations we like
better than others. • 33ut suppose three or
four of us make solemn agreement to
meet each other on important business,
and one goee by the New York Central
• Railroad, another by the Erie Railroad
sonother by the Pennsylvania Railroad,
another by the Baltimore es Ohio Reti-
ree& One goes this way because the
• mountains are grander, another takes
this because the oars are more luxurious,
another that 'because the speed is greater,
another take e the other because he has
long been accustomed to that route and
all the employes are familiar. So Per as
• our engagement to Meet is concerned it
makes no difference if we only get there.
Now, any one of the innumerable evan-
gelical denominations, if you practice its
\ teaching, although some of their trains
run on a broad gauge and Some on a oar.
row gauge, will bring you out at the city
of the Naw Jerusalem. •
It being evident that you will be safe
in any Of the evangelical denominations,
I proceed to reraark, firstif one of the
married couple be a Chrietian and the
ether note the one a Christian is bound
tg g9 elliwkw to 0 thumb whorl the
;heel.: ehe locate like their other daughter,
Whose face Was iilltfaillated with the
brightness of another world an The day
viten the Lord rook lier into hs heaveuin
keeping year* age.
Wet From stropomy.
I should not 'wonder if, After all, these
parents pass she evening at their life in
the same ebonite, all differences of church
preference overcome by the joy ig beteg
in the house of God where their chi/area
were prepared for usefulness and !wawa.
But1 ears give you a recipe for ruining
your children. Angrily contend in the
houeehold that your thumb is right and
the churth of your companion is wrong.
Bring sneer aud earle.atum to emphasize
your opinions. and your children will
make up their minds that religion is a
sham, ana they will have nom of it I
the northeast storm of domestic, contro-
vert'y the rose et nharon and the lily ot
the valley will not grow. Fegbt about
apostolic suceselon. light aboue election
and free ageney, 1103 atiout baptlem,
tighe about the biehopric, fight about
gown med surplice, tied the religious
prospeas at your children will be left
dead on the field. You Will be as unfort-
unate as Charles. Duke at 13urgiun1y,
wbo be battle lost a diamond the 'value
of a kingdom, for In your light you will
lose the jewel of salvation for your entire
bousehold. This is nothing against the
advocacy of your own religious theories.
Ilee all forcible argument, bring all tell-
ing illustration, array all demonstrative
facts, but let there be no acerbity, no
stinging retort, no mean insinuation, DO
superciliousness, as though all others were
wrong and you infallibly right
Take a hint from astronomy. The
Ptolemale system made the earth the
center of the solar system, and everything
was thought to turn round the earth.
But the Copernican system came and
made the sun the center around which,
the planets revolved. Tbe bigot makes
his little belief the center of everything,
but the large souled Christian makes the
sun of riglateousness tha center and, all
denominations without any clashing and
thoh in Its own sphere revelving around
it Oyez the tomb or Dean Stanley in
Westminster Abbey Is the massage of
Scripture, "Thy commandments are ex-
ceeding broad." Let no man crowd us on
to a path like the bridge .A1 Siren whioh
the Mohammedan thinks leads from this
world over the abyss of hell into para-
dise, the breadth of the bridge less than
the web of a starved spider or the edge
of a sword or razor, off the edges of
which many fall. No. While the way is
not wide enough to take with us any of
our sins, it is wide enough for all Chris-
tian believers to pass without peril into
everlasting safety. But do not any 01 you
.
depend upon what you eall a sound
creed" for salvation. A man may own
copal liturgy, arid I like the spontaneity all tbe statutes of the State of New York
of the Methodists, and I like the import- and yet not be a lawyer, and a man Ina/
mace elven to the ordinance of baptism own all the best medical treatises and not
THE EARLY CHURCH -
transient Were Decidedly IX omen and So
Dad Pifferenecs.
The early fathers were very human.
and differei Seem one another in mune
beliefs and opinions. None of them would,
have earaped the state as a heretee in 'the
12th century, haa be Linen ativotiated one
or mono of his peculiar views. But in the
primitere ages they spoke freely and WW1
wantkrfni boldoosi, denouncing, the evils
of pagariesen, and exeoreing %bete bretbren
to lead tee higher life according to
purely Christian standard. Is ie strange.
afta tine when onestlens of ritual are
fiercely Pegged among oa, thee So litt!e
retArellre Is to be foetid to tne known
customs and teathinga 01elie pritititiee
thumb.
The thumb bad two dietinettve WM^
=eineithae of eorumunion ;tad thee of
beenism. Pliny reported, in 112 AJ).,
Shat in Plautus the Ohrietians met reefote
dawn end sang byenns to Cbrise, "as
though to God." VIET gathered afterward
at an "Innocent meal," and they enueht
the eimpleet hum= donee. eweeritle to
observe mend low, agettiet ninth tbere is
no condemnation, Their crime lay in
refusing to incense to the deified Caesar,
a scruplei leading to suspicious of treason.
Their meetings were held ort a "stated
den," and were apletreutly secret, because
tbe Claristien societies were not eurolled
among the licensed (Aube of the emiden
Ip Paleetine the brethren litee on Sun.
dive to read the itrophete and the teaeh-
leg et Apostles, to sing hymns and offer
prayer, Awl to jain iu the agapae en ;trial
meals, during the comets of ethich wine
mingled with water end breed, were see
before the preeitlinn brattier. who gave
thanks to Goal “through" Cleriet and tbe
Spirit, for thee') blessings; and all the
people answered Amen. This Ceterileny
they called Rueharist or "thantsgiving,"
and tho president offerea theta prayers
"as well tie he could," in memory of that
last sinner commanded by Hine wbo
spoke while yet in the flesh and while
Ins bloue wee yet unsbed.—Blaenwoadet.
by the Baptists, and I like the freedom
of the Congregationalists, and I like the
government and the sublime dootrine of
the Presbyterians, and I like many of
the others just as much as any I have
mentioned, and I could happily live and
preach and die and be buried from any
of them. But others are born with a lik-
ing so stout, so unbending, so inexorable
for some denomination that it is a posi-
tive necessity they have the advantage of
Shat one. What they were intended to be
in ecclesiasticism was written in the sides
of their cradle, if the father and mother
had eyes keen enough to see it. They
would not stop crying until they had put
in their heeds as a plaything a Westmin-
ster catechism of the Thirty-nine Articles.
The whole current of their temperament
and thought and character runs into one
sect ot relieionists as naturally as the
be a physician, and a man may own all
the best works on painting and architec-
ture and not be either painter or archi-
tect& and a man may own all the sound
creeds in the world and yet not be a
Christian. Not what you have in your
head and on your tongue, but in your
heart and in your life, will deoide every-
thing.
Hang Out Your Light.
In olden times in England before the
modern street lamps were invented every
householder was expected to have a lan-
tern suspended in front of his house, and
She cry of tiae watchmen in London as
they went along at eventide was, "Hang
our your lights!" Instead of disputing
In your home about the different kinds
of lantern, as a watchman on the walls
of Zion I cry; "Let your light so shine
Jaraes River into the Chesapeake. It before men that they. seeing your good
'would be a torture to such persons to be works, may glorify your Father which is
in heaven" Hang out your lights I non
may have a thousand ideas about religion
and yet riot the great idea of pardoning
mercy. et is not the number of ideas, but
the greatness of them.
But do not reject Christianity-, as
hickory. Abram, the richer in flocks of many do, because there are so many sect
Christian grace, should say to Lot, who Standing in Westminster Hotel, London,
Is built on a smaller scale: "Let there be I looked out of the window and saw
no strife, I pray thee, between me and three cloaks, as near as 1 oan remember
thee, and between my herdsmen and thy —one on the Parliament house, another
herdsmen, Is not the whole land before on St. Margaret's chapel, another on
thee?" As you can be edified and happy Westminster Abbey—and they were all
anywhere go with your cionapanion to different. One said 12 o'clock at noon,
anywhere outside of thanone church.
Now, let the wife or husband who Is
not so construoted sacrifice the milder
preference for the one .more inflexible and
rigorous. Let the grapevine follow the
rugosities and sinuosities of the oak or
theethurch to which, he or she must go
or be miserable.
Advice to Parents.
Remark the third: If both the married
couples are very strong in their sectarian-
ism, let them attend the different
churches preferred. • le hi not necessary'
Shat you attend the same church. Rein
gion is between your conseienoe and your
God. Like Abram and Lot, agree to
suffer. When on Sabbath morning you
come out Of your home together one goes
one way and the other the other, heartily
wish each other a good sermon and a
time of profitable devotion, and when
you meet again at the noonday repast let
it be evident, each to each and to your
children and to the hired help, that you
have both been on the Mount of Trans-
MONTEVIDEO -
axt pme . er.
Clans Sprecitels, the San Francisco stage
ningeoees e quill pen for all his Writ. -
lug eed, can.* one with. Man 'wberever
pen,
Archbishop Irelaini is a man •ot Many
testes, chief' emoog whicit is thee for leen
erldele study be has pursued fon fever*/ '
Teem
Ovneral Blevell Otis wen at One time
one of the beet axenteur meritemen in tila.
teen and he is tale nail to ratite, moth of
bis former thin to thee be.
Horace L. Higgins, dlreetor tbe only
relieved inthe Plallippines, is an Fogitsb-
unto by birth Ana thaneistiend of a grand.-
rainee• et the lost king ef Spain.
ententiore Havennyer, the New York
eugar
king, wbo ties eperst a good deal of
time in the .east., ens bd.fitted up in his
elednota avenae n mine a Chit:nee mem.
• Jt -ice Joian Herlere cf the leniteel •
Stetes sue -ratite .ceurt, ens a ease voice of
einnonierial depth and epteedid quality.
As A yeting man •there was kelgee ta. et
nitantig i,ivf!ng ey it.
Captain C. Rath. who !ad charge O. the
excentevern of the • foer perseice who Wit -
se hind_ aSSASsinitte Prentlerit Lincoln la
teen. ts at present a raitwoy evetial c:?er
a'ad :IreS at entekeen.
Winitnei Reword Vatiderbilt,
Compapy C, Fira Witeningten veintateers,
reeidene Tee -Mere is a.n,randitein of the
.reodere and the Prey represeetattve 01
ineelly Nebo, eerveti 'in the npanielit war.
Rentseli nage is win to have bed bis
boats shined at the •ninte tirne every morn-
ing Ior the pane 20 yetert at .a Wail street
etand. eie Las net beep ininute tete
re than A deZen t;reeli in all those
intimetes neeeter A. G. Foster
V ingten is ituowe ati"tbei man wito
be," Hes a veleta! nerving of an.
ectioten In epeetantice• he is vigorous,
Quirto stature owl wetgles about goo
pounds.•
Wbile a atident at Inalversity•ot
Mithigen henator Petrie, Inongh not biuet
reelf atelete. Fennel two terms OS ylt5).-
dent tit the Iheivereity Athletic aesonatIen
and was OUP of the Ilion trenortant work-
ers in estaelistiug its standing
ni.
Ex-Seeretary niairen enye. that bis
;other, the generate •cnce replied time' to
o compllenene en tenon' fallen to the
family; eYes. Jan nes eleue well, I do
not complain of fortune. But the best
and best of tbe Shernsarn was my beetter
.fln. If be bud heed -Jim rest of newould
beve 'been thrown. In the kettle. °'
Petty (Meer A. 0...twee or Ler me:esteem
thip Royalist,. en the Anttralian Ennio.;
is the creek marksmen t -f the wbele Br3-
isle navy. •the best lineman out of tens of
theueands. In last yearn reflo .pratietee
be evened 227 points out ef peesitle 240
a geed reeord, beitse eetveral points better
tee: naval champlen of leite and 1697. no
than
City 'Noted for Its Newanap
Libraries and sehocas.
Montevideo Is noted for its intelligence.
It is e city of newspapers, libraries and
Wheal. There is a national library wheel
canteens 22,00 volumes, It has a nationel
museum, in wbich there are 38,000
objects. It is the center of intelligence
for the country, ansi the leading dailies,
weeklies mid monthlies are published
here. Most of the deities are in Spanish,
but there are two daily English news-
papers anti an Italian newspaper, and
also outs in French,
As to the school system, this is steadily
improving. There are 500 more schools
in then:May now than there were in
1876, although as yet only nine per cent.
of tbe population attend them, and the
majority of the common people cannot
read and write, There are now in the
neighborhood of 2,000 school teathers, of
whom more than two-thirds are wornen.
Teachers are well paid. the average being,
about $85 a month. Most of the teachers
are foreigners, there being only 606 native
teachers In the 1,990 In service. Normal
schools have, however, bean established,
and there rill be an increased number of
native teachers in the future.
Montevideo has a university with 85
professors and 549 students. The course
in this is very complete, law, medicine,
engineering and the orninary college
studies being taught. It is supported by
the Government. The Government also
supports an industrial school, which bas
248 pupils, and a military college, which
has 48 pupils.
The country bas a good postal and
telegraph system as well.
nether said five minutes before 12, an-
other said five minutes after 12. I might
e s well have concluded that there is no
o uch thing as time because the three
timepleoes were different as for you to
oonclude that there is no such thing as
pure Christianity because the churches
differ in their statement of it.
But let us all rejoice that, although
part of our family may worship on earth
In one church and part in another church
or bowed at the same altar in a compro-
mise of preferences, we are, if redeemed,
on the way to a perfect church, where all
our preferences will be fully gratified.
Great cathedral of eternity, with arehee
tf amethysts and pillars of sapphire, with
floors of emerald and • windows aglow
with the sunrise of heaven! • What
stupendous towere, with chimes angel
ftetiration, although you went up by
• ltelited and angel rung! What m,yriade
A rnan. is neer efraid to scaryman who likes earn
inettioerity con talk, but it t noes genta*
tOl.ret ilhtelieC1 to.
wbo rends can't always ruin ten
been, frequently puts tiiro to sleep.
Wheia a women can nuke pretty gest
tures she nnows she doeson need to have
much senee.
When a man nas teeth, polled ne feels
lonesome until his wife hes coaled him tn
wy that le really taul hurt.
A man convinced against his wM only
shuts up until be can. gee another man to
talk to.
It is wonderful what peer boy Pen AO*
ceneellsh when bo bas rten father to fail
back on.
Tbe mien true buenoriet is the uncon-
scious bow:varlet; he never lennhe and
doesn't ger any pay.
Many men get famous by merely writ-
ing the things other septa could beve
ernitten if they bad only thougne of them.
Ocean Monsters.
The Oceanic, recently launched at Bel-
fast, Is the biggest vessel afloat Tbe first
steamer that crossed the Atlantic was the
Savannah. Her displacement was 350
tons. The voyage was effected in 26 days
and the ship berself wan regarded as a
wonder. That is 80 years ago. Forty
years later the wonder of the Savannah
was lost in the marvel of the Great East-
ern. Like the Savannah, the Great East-
ern was a paddiewheeler. Subsequently
came the Persia. The old packets which
took forever to cross the ocean vanished.
For the rich and opulent there was the
opportunity to go to Europe in less than
two weeks. Twenty-five years ago ten
days was a fast trip. The first to do bet-
ter was the Servile. Then from their
kennels one after the other the grey-
hounds emerged. Last year came the
Kaiser Wilhelm, with a speed of about 23
knots and a displacement of 20.000 tons.
In a recent announcement it was stated
that if this ship were set on her stern at
the side of the 27 -storey St. Paul build-
ing on Broadway she would be more than
twice as high. Were the same operation
performed with the Othanie she would
soar 60 feet higher. How fast she goes
we are uninformed. But for the moment
the detail is unimportant. Assuming that
she makes the trip in six days, and re-
membering that the Savannah made it
in 26, the question at once arises how
many years will 15 be before ocean travel
time is sequestrated and space abolished?
—Edgar Saltus in Collier's Weekly.
COLONEL FUNSTON,
They Wake the Terve' Iniergiesi—Ma-
elaiiiery not properly supervised and lefe
to rim ,tseif, eery seen U14 touli 10 259
week:mg. IL ie the eaten a nit the digest,
tire orgw;s. tetenettnetea front time to
vane they are in. En7vou:e peeled tied
throw tee wattle sy-teet oue Of gear.
Parma,es 'Vegetal hi Pile were mettle to
meet eueli tienee. '1'44ey restore to the full
;be tagging facial:es, and bring lute Or,
dor en-perte of the nieettenisie.
reeian 11.0113,0 in PeAtiel.
Areltien tenses erianifeet remarkable
;mirage in beetle. lt is ,Raid that Whelk a
bone of this" breed Ude biruselt wouudedi
and perceives that be WM not be Able tn
neer Ins rider reticle longer he .quicnie re.
tires from the cierillict, bearing his nteettiel
to a pace of ninety while he has still eon
ificient strength, Bue if, on the -othet
bend, the rider is wounded end feell tit
the ground, tbe faithful animal =nein*
beeide hint, unmindful of danger, eieight
tug uotil assistance is brought
Colonel Fred Fuosten bas had experi-
ence as an Ohio linen and a newspaper re-
porter.—Washington Pest,
Colonel Funston, in all but the whisk-
ers, is making bin:twit a promising pos-
sibility for governor of Kaxisas.—Sen
France= Chronicle.
Colonel Funston, the new war hero,
hails from. Kansas. It is perhaps needless
to add that be wears ethiskers and does
wreathing surprIsivg every time he gets a
ehance.—Chicago News.
And now the question is, Will the wom-
en of Karnes City greet Colonel Funston
at the reception sure to be given him as
they greeted Robson? We have an idea
that if Mrs, Funston sees them first they
will not.—liansas City Journal.
Colonel Punston bas uttered the finest
phrase of the war. The Twentieth Kansas
had pressed on to Caloocion 1,000 yards
ahead of the line. "Bow long ean you
hold your position?" was the xneseage of
General MacArthur. Inlet could be more
splendid than Colonel Funston's reply,
"Until my regiment is mustered outi"—
Kansas City Star.
The Profitable Age for Winter Layers.
"At what age is it most profitable to
keep hens for winter- layers?" The wise
ones tell us that pullets of any ot the
better varieties that are hatched early
enough in the season to reach maturity,
and begin laying in the fall, will con-
tinue throughout the winter with short
periods' of intermission, provided, of
course, teat they are fed and eared for
in such a manner as to promote the egg -
making process. We are also told that
hens of the heavier varieties are at their
best when two years old, and that a
larger per centof their eggs aro fertile,
and produce finer, healthier chicks than
those hatched from pulletseggs. Of the
smaller and more active, the non -sitting
breeds, hens can be kept vvitia profit until
five years old.—The Cable.
ANIMAL LIFE.
The pretty little woodpecker of Califor-
nia is an energetic ‚worker It will carry
an acorn a distance of 80 miles to store it
away from sight.
The guinea pig growsmore quielety than
any other quadruped. It is fully grown
when 6 weeks old and begins to bear
young at 2 months.
The eggs of a terrapin are hatched in
about 30 days. With her forepaws the fe-
male terrapin, in the middle of them,
scratches a hole in tbe sand, and in it
places her eggs, from 13 to 69. She then
covers them and relies upon the sun to do
the hatching.
When a heron Baps his wings, the up-
ward and downward movements, it la
claimed, number nearly 300 beats a min-
ute. The bird consequently creates a con-
siderable disturbance of the air for some
distance in his vicinity whenever be thus
exercises himself. ,
A new back for 50 cents. Miller's
Kidney Pills and Plaster.
Tbe Coughing end wheezing of persons
troubled with bronchitis or the wattling
IS exceesively baro -sing to teenciseiese
and annoying to others. Dr. Tinernese
Ecieetrie Oil obviates all this entirely*
seely aud speedily, arid le a benign
remedy ler lametiess, sores, injeries, piles,
tattley and spinal troubien
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Tbe Old One—My boy, now thee yeti
are starting out, relnember there are Me
ninels of 'women in lite world to avoid—
the scarred and the unmarried.
'Ile Young One—ilew about the wen
OW3, governor?
The Old One—Don't try, I% would is
;Mines.
For Consolation.
"I see young Molly Gwiinple is trying
to raise a mustache. '
"Yes. The Jones gin! gave him the
hake last week, and he has to have some-
thing to love."
Bearded Lady—I see they leave arrested
the tattooed man.
The Lion Tamer—Yes; the police ace
owed him of harboring designs on him-
self.
You cannot be happy while you have
corns. Then do not delay in getting a
bottle of Holloway's Corn Cure. It re-
moves all kinds of corns without pain.
Failure with it is unke0W11.
How's This!
We otter One Mildred thpll.tra reward fel
any ease et Catarrh tint caunot be cured by
Ranee naterrh Cure.
F. J. MIENEY & CO., Toledo, Ot
W. the undersigned, lave known F. J.
Cheney ter the 1 se 15 yearn mid elleve hire
perfeetly tonorable In all business transaction(
and financially able to carry out any
lions made • their firm.
WEsra:Tuat'X.Wholoale Draggles, Toleda.
EISNAN & MARVA, Wbolt salt; Drete
eine, 'rondo, 0.
Hann Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, Acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol
the system. Testimonials sent free. Pries 76s
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
what 134, ItaitUr Seld,
"And you say the idiot of a teacher told
you that you had an extravagant fool of
father?"
"elthat'e what he meant."
'But what did he say?"
"Be said it was criminal folly to waste
money on the education of such a thump
as I am."
Miller's Worm Powders aro a wonder.
ful medicine for the ailments of children.
lile Unfair Trick.
Claribel—You told me you were neves
going to write to young Hankinson again.
Angie—He's written me a dozen letters
I haven't answered, but in his last one he
left a page out, and I had to write and ask
him what It was about.
Minard's Liniment Cures Carget in Cows.
The Savage Bachelor.
"Persons who stammer," said ths
pseudo -scientific b arder, "do so because
they think faster than they can talk."
"Is that the reason," asked the savage
bachelor, "that we so seldom meet a vete
man who stammers?"
(jute Natural.
Bill—That fellow looks terribly twisted.
Jill—It's no wonder.
"Why?"
' "Because I hear his wife turns him
around her little finger."
My daughter has improved so much that
you would hardly know her—Miller's Com.
pound Iron Pills did it.
shut It.
When through the gates of Paradise
He goes to bliss for evermore,
And leaves behind all earthly sins,
I'll bet he does not close the door.
/Jraw.
Tommy—Who is the lightweight chant.
pion, pa?
Pa—Eem, it's a draw between the coal
man and the ice man, my son.
Makin= the Best of It.
Snagg----When a man bite's off more
than he eau chew, what's the best thing?
Lagg—Put it in his pipe and sraoke it.
Minard's Liniment Cores Colds, etc,
it seems only na tural that in the diet
eovery of disease germs the germ -an
doctors shonld play a leading jtart, —L.
A. W. Bulletin.
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