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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-4-19, Page 3"THE GOSPEL SIR??' *anion by Rev. T. De VYitt Talmage, DX., at New York Academy of Music. Although his oratory is at all times 'magnetic and eloquent, there is one "`theme with which, whenever he makes it the groundwork of his sermon, Dr. Talmage never fails to eommuni ;ate to his auditors the enthusiasm he himself feels. That theme is the Gospel invita- tion; and when he took for his subject "The Gospel Ship," the great audience "that crowded the Academy was in full sympathy. The text selected was Gene- sis 6: 18 : 'Thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee." In this day of the steamships Lucan ia," and ' "Majestic," and the "Pane," I will show. you a ship• that in some re - swots eclipsed them all; and which sailed out, an ocean underneath, and another 'ocean falling upon it. Infidel scientists -ask us to believe that in the formation of -the earth there have been a half dozen -deluges, and yet they are not willing to believe the Bible story of one deluge. In what wap the catastrophe came, we know not ; whether by stroke of a comet, -or by flashes of lightning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand -of God, like the stroke of the axe between 'the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. `To meet the catastrophe, God ordered a •,great ship built. It was to be without prow; for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be without helm, for no human -hand should guide it. It was a vast ,structure; probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It was the -"Groat Eastern" of olden time. I am no alarmist. When, on the 20th ' of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the north- -east, 'prophesy that the equinoctial storm •'is coming, you simply state a feet not to be disputed. Neither ane I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming, com- pared with which Noah's deluge was but ;au April shower ; and that it is wisest rand safest for you and for me to get safe- ly housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our "ears : ` Come tht,u and all thy house into the ark." Well, how did Noah and his family -some into the ark? Did they climb in at the window, or down the roof ? .No ; th 'they went rougli the door. And just so; if we get into the ark of God's mercy it will be through Christ the deer. The -entrance to the ark of old must havebeen a very large entrance. We know that it 'was, from the feet that there were mon- ster animals in the earlior ages ; and, in order to get them into the ark two by two, according to the Bible statement, 'the door must have been very wide and very high. So the door into the mercy -of God. is a. large . door. We go in, not two by two, but by hundreds and by "thousands, and by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may go in, ten mil- lions abreast. The door of thd' ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of 'Christ—the pierced side, the wide-open -side, the heart side—that we enter. Aha ! the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear :into the Saviour's side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. Oh, what a broad gospel to preach ! If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues two or three hundred invitations, care- fully put up and directed to the particu- lar persons whom he wishes to entertain. Bat God, our Father, makes a banquet, and goes out to the front idcor of heaven, and stretches oat his hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice -castle, and Brazilian grove, and Eng- lish factory, and American home, cries out, "Come, for all things are now ready !" It is a wide door! The old 'Cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the door posts, so fax apart that the world can come in. Bins scatter treasure on days of great ::rejoicings. So Christ, our King, comes -and scatters the jewels of heaven. Row- land Hill said that he hoped to get into ,itteaven through the crevices of the door. Rut he was not obliged thus to go in. ..After having preached the gospel in Sur- rey Chapel, going up toward heaven, the ;gate keeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man -come in !" The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went :in. Europe, Asia, North and South :America may yet go through this wide door without crowding. Ho ! everyone— all conditions, all ranks, all people ! Luther said that this truth was worth 'marrying on one's knees from Rome to •Jerusalem ; but f think it worth carry- ing all around the globe, and all around the heavens, that "God so loved he •- world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believetk in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." Whosoever will, let him come ' hiough the large door. Archimedes wanted a fulerum oh which to place his lever, and then said he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, and the -Cross of Christ is the lever ; and by that ;power all the nations shall yet be lifted. Further : It is a door that swings both -ways. I do not know whether the door •of the ancient ark was lifted, or rolled on hinges ; but this door of Christ opens. both ways. It swings out toward all our 'woes; it swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings in to let us in ; it swings out to let our ministering ones come out, All are one in Christ—Chris- tians on earth and saints in heaven. • One army of the living God, At dig command we bow 'Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. .. Swing in, 0 blessed. door ! until all the earth shell go. in and live. Swing out until all the heavens come forth to cele- brate the victory. But further, it is the door with fasten- ings, The Bible says of Noah, The Lord shut him in, A vessel wi"oe bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah"and his family hoard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad. Unless those doors were fastened, the first heavy surge of the sea would have overwhelmed them; and they might as -well haveper- ished outside the ark as inside the ark, "The Load shat him in." Oh, the perfect safety of the ark ! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be snow and fire— deep g and of twisted into a gar todeep,storm to storm, darkness to al. is well. ss , bub once it the ark, 1 darline , "God shut him in." There tomos upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble, He had his thousands to lend ; now ho cannot borrow a dollar He once owned a store in New York, and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia •• and New Orleans. He owned four horses, and employe"', a man to keep the dust off hie coach, phaeton, carriage and eurricle; now he has hard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, fore-and-aft, and across the hurricane deck the waves struck him. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. "The Lord shut him in !" A. flood of domestic troubles fell on him. Sickness and be- reavement came. Tho rain pelted, the winds blew. The heavens aro aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The mountains of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep. But standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall, once a- ring with Merry voices, now silent for- ever, the Lord cried, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away ; blessed be the name of the Lord." "The Lord shut him in." All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow, The broken vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, the outrageous pro- fanitios, the misdemeanors of twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The bound- less meat of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoon, raving like an euroelydon. But, looking out of the window, he saw his sins sinking like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heaven brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only push- ed him toward heaven, "The Lord shut him in !" • The same door fastenings, that kept Noah in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know that when a man reaches heaven all earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family ; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly ; there "the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes," Here he may have hard work to get a house; but in my Father's house are many man- sions, and rent day never comes.,Here there are death beds, and coffin, and graves; there no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consum- ing fever, no chattering chillyno tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life come. up and knock at the door, but no admit- tance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admit- tance. Safe forever ! All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarkf of the ship of celestial light shall not, break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage: ye seas ! The Lord —"the Lord shut him in !" Oh, what a grand old door ! so wide, so easily swung both ways, and with such sure fastenings, No burglar's key can pick that look. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft with leaking hulk, and broken helm, and unfastened door ; but an ark fifty cubits wide, and three' hundred cubits long, and a door so large that the round -earth, without grazing the post, might be bowled in ! Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in whit to live, and die, and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut others out; and though, when the pitiless storm camp pelting on their heads they beat upon the door saying, "Let me in ! lot me in !" the door did not open. For one hundred and twenty years they were invited. They expected tocome in ; but the antediluvians said, "We must culti- vate ultivate these fields ; we must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle ; we wilt wait until we get a little older; we will enjoy our old farm a little longer" But meanwhile the .storm .was brewing. The fountains of heaven were filling up. The pry was being placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash an ocean dropped from the sky, and another rolled up from beneath; and God rolled the earth one sky into one wave of universal destruction. So men now put orf going into the ark. They, say they will wait twenty years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say, " You cannot expect a man of my attainments and of my position to sur- render myself just now. But before the storm comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I know what I am about. Trust me !" After a while, one night about twelve o'clock, going home, he passed a scaffold- ing just as a gust of wind struck it, and a plank falls. Dead ! and outside the ark ! Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and he shouts, " Whoa! whoa!" and takes another twist in the reins and plants his feet against the dash -board and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter course into the great future. Dead ! and • outside the ark! Or, some night he wakes up with a distress that momentarily increases, un- til he shrieks out with pain. The doc- tors come in, and they give him twenty drops, but no relief; forty drops, fifty drops" sixty drops, but no better. No time for prayer. No time to read one of the promises, No time to get a sin par- doned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The' pulse fail. The heart stops. The soul flies. Dead ! and outside the ark! I havepeople out oft the that derision The world many p laughed to see a man go in, and said, "Here -is a man starting for the ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not wea- ther it. Aha! going into the ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the news? This man is going into the ark." • Under this artillery of scorn the man's good resolution per- ished, And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks himself, "What would they say at the Store tomorrow morning if I should become a obristian? When Igo down to the clubhouse they will shout, Here Comes that new Ohristian. Suppose you will not have anything to do with us no w. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your knees and let us hear you Pray. Come, now, . give us a touch. Will not do. it, eh ? Pretty Christian you are !' " Is it not the fear of /aping laughed at that kee ps yen out of the kingdom of God? Which of these soorners will help you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of thein will be there? In the day of eternity will they bail you out? My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Colne in through elitist the wide door—the door that swings out toward you. Come, in: and be saved: Come awl. be, happy. " The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." Room in the ark! Room in the ark ! But do not oome alone. The text in- vites you to bring your family. It says, " Thou and thy sons and thy wife," oannl,t drive them in, to drive the pig ark, he would o Some parents things. They • Sabbaths, and t down the, throat, child's nose and fax barb and calomel.. your children into the draw your children to Ch cannot coerce them. The eros:. ed, not to drive, but to draw. " If lifted up, I will draw all men mete me." As the sun drawus up the drops of morn- ing dew, so the Sun of Rightousness ex- hales the tears of 'repentance. Be sure that you bring your husband and: wife with you, Flow would Noah have felt if, when he heard the rain pat- t4ring on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm ? No ; she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outward b ,und" for heaven ; but your companion is un- sheltered. You remember the day when the marriage ring was set. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Siekness came and the finger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stand alone above a child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes ; but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days of poverty,„came, and the hand did many a hard day's work; but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter, Shall that ring ever be lost ? Will the iron clang of the sepulchre -gate crush it forever? I pray God that you who have been mar- ried on earth may be together in heaven. Oh ! by the quiet bliss of your earthly home ; by the babe's cradle ; by all the vows of that day when you started life together, I beg to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in, and bring your wife or your husband with you—not by fretting about religion, or ding-donging them about re- ligion, but by a consistent life, and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of Gt.d down into your room. Go home and take up the Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and cora- mend oinmend your souls to Him who has watched you all these years; and before you rise, there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel crying to angel, "Be- hold! they pray !” But this does not include all your family. Bring the children too. God bless the dear children ! What would our homes be without them? We may have done much for them. They have done more for us. ‘K• hat a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's hand ! Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good night ?" From our coarse, rough life the angels of God are often driven back ; but who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around ? They who die in infancy go straight into glory; but you are expecting your chil- dren to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all the corridors, and windings, and heights and depths of your soul, what is to be- come of your sons and daughters for time and eternity ? "Oh," you. say, "I mean to see that they, have good manners." Very well, "I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby." Very well. "I shall give theirs an education. I shall leave them a fortune." Very well. But is that all ?• Don't you mean to take them into the ark ? Don't you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety ? no pardon ? no hope ? no heaven ? How to get them in ? Go in yourself ! If Noah had staid out; do you suppose that his sons—Sham, Ham and Japheth —would have staid out ? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself and the proba- bility is that your children will reject Him. An account was taken of the religious condition of families in a certain district. In the families of pious parents two- thirds of the children were Christiane. In the families where the parents were ungodly only one-twelth of the children were Christians. Which way will you take your childen ? Out into the deluge, or into the ark? Have you ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the judg- ment when God asks : `Where is George, or Henry, or Frank, or Mary, or Anna ? Where are those precious souls whose in- terests I committeed into your hands ?" A dying son said to his father, "Father, you gave me an education, and good manners. and everything that the world could do for me ; but, father, you never told me how to die; and now my soul is going out in the darkness." Oh, ye who have taught your children how to live, have you also taught them how to die'? Life here is not so import- ant as the great hereafter. It is not so much the few furlongs this side of the grave as it is the unending leagues be- yond. • 0, eternity ! eternity ! Thy locks white with the ages ! Thy voice announc- ing stupendous destiny ! Thy arms reaching across all the past,and all the future ! 0, eternity ! eternity ! 0 it s.? some d? will est have children's ave not one ome, mother! liter ! Come, ! Come all in, re in. Christ, the door; o admit us; and it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but the voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, saying, 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark." And there may the Lord shuts us in! HG Ii.AN ON THEE SIDING. How an Engineer lxot Away With Sig itIollie—He Fooled Etta Pmraners, But It Was a Hot Race. "Railroadin' in the south ain't what it used to be," said the engineer, wiping his hands upon a bunch of waste and taking a piece of tobacco from his overalls pocket, "Give me the good old days when we had wood-burnin' engines, easy schedules with long stops and no tele- graph to bedevil us. We could run pretty much to suit ourselves then, and it goes without sayin' we had lots of en- joyment. "Take, for instance, the fun Jim Lark- ins and me had one night about fifteen years ago. You see, Jim and me were both eourtin' the same girl, both bein' engineers on the Wilmington, Columbia 8c Augusta road between Columbia and Charlotte. Ever been down there ? Well, even yet the road ain't quite as good as it might be, but in them days it was a sight worse. The tracks were laid with the old-fashioned U rail on tins five feet apart and spliced with fish places. When the wheels struck one end of the rail the other end tilted up and I tell you it made 'a nervous man seasick the first time he traveled over that line. We had no tole - graph wire, and so could do pretty much as we pleased around Columbia, the superintendent bein' located at Charlotte Many a time we used to get an engine out after dark and raise Cain in the neighborhood. The only trouble was that as the engines were old and rickety they couldn't stand much. They were wood -burners, and nowadays would look top-heavy with their little boilers and big stacks. When one of them got a good move on after dark, I tell' you it looked • like a running display of fire- works, the stack thro win' out sparks and chunks of blazin' wood like a volcano. "Old man Smith, that'sMollie's father, didn't like lee near as well as he did aim, but seein' that Mollie preferred me,. I wasn't carie' much about her, dad's opin- ion. It wasn't no use for us to try to get spliced in Columbia • for everybody knew that her father had ordered her not be seen with me ; so the only thing for us to do was to watch our chance, and go off on the quiet to someplace along the line. I thought it over for several days, and got the thing in shape. I told Mollie to come down to the round -house about 7 o'clock one night and I would take her for `a little ride on my engine. She afraid? Well, I guess you don't know her. Why, she had run tee machine her- self many a. time. "I had given the hint to Jack, my fire- man, and he was on hand when I backed out on the main track, leavin' Jim's en- gine in the round -house. Mollie was waitin', and she jumped on the tank like an engineer's sweetheart ought to do. Just as we were pullin' out, Jim came around the corner. His eyes opened, I tell you. " 'Where are ye goin', Bill ?' he shout- ed. "'Just out for a little ride,' I remark- ed., coolly, puttiu' Mollie up on the box in front of me so I had to put my arms around her to reach the lever. I saw Jim gasp and start on a run for towards Mollie's house, where he knew her father was. Go home and erect a family altar, You may break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly or not, Bring all your house into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counselling and praying ?. Give him up? How dare you give him up ? Did God ever give you up ? Whilst you have a single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a return to his fath- er's house. Give him up ? Never give him up l Has God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late. In St. Paul's, London, there is a whis- pering gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at one side of the gallery is heard distinctly at the opposite side, a great distance off. So, every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth, and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark—not ' to sit down, but to stand in the door, and call until all the family come in. • A ed Noah, where is Japheth? David, where is Absalom? Haunah, where is Samuel? On one of the lake steamers there was a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor, A benevo- lent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief, and said, "You seem to be vary poor, air," "Poor, sir," replied the man, " if there s a poorer man than me. a troublin' the world, God pity both of us." "I will take Castoria is The. Samuel reitiebeeeel prescription for Inftuits. and Children,. It eoritainS nci:i'.+icr Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic t;:rbsti neo. It is zx harmless substituae ler P rag I)rope, kioothr..-:.3 Syrups, ups, and Castor 012. It "i'".a l "'lcazsar t . its guarantee ie thirty rears' use .. ee MIMI= s e;LMothers. C stcr^ia,c']estro3• 'Worms andaliay.s fevers: hnesS. Castoria iprevent:l w oneiting Sour Caress, cares Diarrhoea and Wind Ool!c. Castoria relieves teeth/nig' trove -ace, eters, comii,ipation and flatulency. Castoria, atssiirefla ere l'.:io f,cel, regulates the stomach and boveeln. bee/tele' ft eel nat€aial sleep. Case torea 71.i the Childrentrl leenwuaCe--k.?aa ] i cthor's Friends Castorie le nn c- oe lk :::s di .^o rt'c] '- ciren. 1 others 1i .' a reek ^. t l,. told In', good effect two:: thea Da. C. C. 0 -..coon, Lowe1l,14ass. "C±estoraa is the beat remedy for children Cr er :it.n 1 u: 1 cc.gu0:11.ed. 11 e -r > the c ,: • trot .r distant when:authorstiri:le.o.,a forti..Le:tl ":;terestof their children, and use Castoria in- •.ead of the variousquae.k nostrumswhlsli are u,+stroying their loved ones, by forcing„ cr,td:o, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents Lm+'n their throats, thereby sending theleto premature graves." DR. J. 31. Kurcainos,. Conway, syr Caotorka. QC:rorha.issowe11adaptedtochildrenthat 1 rem:In::Ic: d it as superior to any prescription known to roc " II. A. ARCURN N. D., 111 No. Oxford. tl . ; . ;.:roolllyu, N. Y. "Cur phy. c I ns in tho children's depart- ment 1V.., spo.cun highly of their, experi- ence iz 1.:10r outside practice with Cnstoria. a.31 although we only have among •Ir r r:ed:c.t supplies what is known as reg.0-r products, yet we aro free to confess that, the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor up.' it." riNIT zo HOSPIr I' AND DISPintaan'r.. Boston, Mast, .,.LEN C. Slum, Piss, Tho Centattr 6lourpa'irl, T7 Murray Screen, New York City. feleneteenetTee Ver. si yelled to Jack to put on the hand brakes. He jumped to the wheel, Mollie helpin' him, and in a few minutes we had nearly stopped.. " "Jump down quick, Jack, and open the switch„' I said, 'I'm going to run up bark sidin'.' "In less time than it takes to tell it we were on the sidin', the switch reset for he main traek, and then I run up in the woods and stopped. We shut off all lights and .waited. "In a minute or two we heard a faint rumble, which changed into a roar, then we could distinguish the elickety-click of wheels passin' over the ends of rails. the rattle of machinery and the hissin' of steam, while the puffiin' of the exhaust was so rapid as to blend into hollow thunder. A whirlwind of sparks became visible, andthen, with a hop, skip and jump, Jim's engine passed us like a streak of runaway lightnin', the occu- pants ccaspants never dreamin' we were in the sidin'. "We hunted up the nearest preacher and got married; me, with my face all black and grimy, and Mollie without any hat, fox' the wind had blowed. it away. Jack was witness, and I let him kiss the bride, for I thought he deserved it. We got back to Columbia about midnight, ,, nd next mornin' I took out the express as if nothin' had happened. "What became of Jim? Why, the blame fool actually run right straight ahead all night, till he reached Charlotte the neat mornin'. He was the worst sur- prised man in the state when he found we had given him ethe ,slip. Then the superintendent wanted to know what he meant by takin' out his engine without orders, and the, end of it all was that Jim not only lost his girl, but got suspended as well." "In two minutes we were spinnin', in three hummin', and in five minutes we were tearin' through the valley like a cyclone. It was a pitch dark night, and not a thing could be seen ahead. " 'There they come,' yelled Jack before we had gone ten miles. "Lookin' back we saw a shower of sparks just visible above the treetops. We concluded at ones that was Jim and Mollie's dad, and that we would have to do some pretty tall travelin' to avoid capture. Mind you, Jim carried a gun. The engines were pretty well matched, but, of course, T was nervous. Just ahead was a heavy grade five miles long, and I knew it would be a tough pull to get over it, but once on the other side of the hill our chances for gettin' away would be good. "'Do your best Jack to keep up steam, I called across to the fireman. "Mollie was restin' in my arms as quiet- ly as if we had been sittin' on the hair - cloth sofa in her parlor, her lips half open and the wind blowin' her hair all over my face. Mighty sweet it smelled, too, but I hadn't much time to think about such things then. HOW HUNTINGTON SUCCEEDED. Mr. Huntington's fortune is variously estimated at from $6,000,000 to $4000,- 000. He began with nothing. Agonizing, Transfixing Pain. The most excruciating pain known is perhaps caused by Agina Pectoris, which is most to be dreaded of any of the diseases of the heart. •It distin- guishes itself especially by pain, and by pain which is beat described as agonizing. The pain literally trans- fixes the patient, generally radiating from the heart to the left shoulder and down the arm. The face shows the pic- ture of terror, and is either deathly white, or livid. To a person suffering from this species of heart trouble or from palpita- tion or fluttering of the heart, shortness of breath, or smothering spells, the value of Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart can- not be estimated, as it will give relief in thirty minutes in every case, and if judi- ciously used, effect a cure. Dr. Agnew's. Cure for the Heart is the greatest life saving remedy of the age. What He Would Do If He Were Young and Had $100,000. I asked. Collis P. Huntington, the great railroad magnate, to what he attributed his success in life, and he replied ; "Attention to my own business." Mr. Huntington, was a '49er. "I ar- rived in. Sacramento with nothing," he said, "and was glad to get a job in a general store at a very small salary. Our customers were mostly miners. There were three other clerks, who devoted most of their time to running around with the boys. I stuck to the store and gained the confidence of the proprietor. By and by I became a partner, and after that fortune came easily." "If you had to begin life anew," I asked, !'what would you do? What do you regard as the best field for a young man?" "If I were a young man and had $100,- 000," he replied, "I would go at once to the Congo Free State and buy rubber. Over across the mountains you can buy it crude for one cent a pound. To get it down to the coastfor shipment you. would probably have to pay a cent or two more, The natives will parry it over on their backs for that price. It doesn't cost much to ship it to New York, were You can usually count on $1 a pound. It's au adventurous sort of business, but I know of nothing that will pay better. I'd be worth a million in ten years if I were a young man and could start with $100,- 000." "But 'suppose you did not have the $100,000 ?" I asked, "All of a sudden we heard a whistle and it sounded right behind us. I jumped up with dismay and looked back. There was Jun less than half a mile away, nom - in' like a house afire. Mollie looked, too, then her eyes fell on Jaek, whose wood was gettin' low, and who had rolled a barrel out from the back part of the tank and was tryin' to bust the head in. She slid out of my arms, and, holdin' onto the levers got down beside the fireman. The first thing I knew of it was when I saw her fiahie.' out big fat hams from the bar- rel and passin them to Jaek, who was feedin'the furnace with 'em. 'Bully for you, jack,' I yelled as the steam gauge jumped up again.. "Well, that did the business. We reached the top of the grade without Jim gainin' another rook, and then we began to slide downward. Great Jupiter, ,how we did drop down that hill. The noise was terrific and the old engine rocked like a cradle. Lookin' back I saw Mollie standin' on the tank holdin' on by the Wake, he "dress fluttorin', her hair hie w- in' and her eyes shinin' like stars. I'll never forget that sight. "I knew that as soon as Jim roached the top of the hill he'd after us lickety split, and I begun to fear we couldnt make the riffle this time, but all at once a thought struck mo. T shut off steam and • When Baby was siok, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she Cried for Castoria. When she became Mins, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them (Astoria. Work and Wages. A blacksmith in Jerusalem can make $1.92 per week, The King of Bavaria has a salary of $1,412,000 a year. A printer in Peru can make from $1.25 to 81 80 a day. Shop girls in France receive an average of $100 a year. In Mexico seamstresses are paid 37 vents a day ; weavers 50 cent's. Bookkeepers in Germany receive from $300 to $600 a year. . Teachers in Hamburg receive from $11. to $28 per month. "Then I'd start with $10,000 and take my chances," he replied. "But, Mr. Huntington," I said, "it is not every man that has $10,000, What would you do if you did not have that sum ?" "A young man in this day and genera- tion who does not possess $10,000 had bete ter stay at home and work at something till, he gets it," was the answer. 'And, he continued, "I guess the only way to getit is to save 3t. „ Ward McAllister, the social director of the 400, endeavored to persuade leIr. Huntington to invest in certain stocks in Wall street, "Mr. McAllister," said the tt u o. the rule f pioneer, I have made itmy life never to go outside of my own enter- prises for investment. They offer me all the opportunities for speeulatiou I need, I do not believe in scattering sty r'esour' cos, If I do not have faith in my own. companies how can I expect others to take stock in them ?" Fig packers in Asia Minor, if skilful, can make 20 cents a day. A camel owner and his beast in Pales- tine are worth 810 a day. Railroad clerks in Germany are paid an average of 52 cents a day. Houses for working people in Germany rent for 825 to 845 a year, 1 As long as bad books and newspapers are made welcome in the house the devil cannot be kept out. Lot was dragged out of Sodom, bnt shere are some church members who live there yet. THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR MAN OR BEAST. Certain in its effect; and never blisters. 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