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iUTOEEKliMkk.-.n-wHDAy-. JANUARYS, 1698. '6 5 " 1 i : -- GOD AMID TUB CORAL TIEV- DR. TALM AGE ON TUB SCULP TURK OP THE DEEP Picking Up a Coral, He Says He Feel Wke Crying Oar, "There U a God, and I Adore mini" Comfort for Faithful CbrUtUn Workers mils picturesque (discourse of Dr. Tal mage leads lila "hearers and readers ithroug'h .unwonted regions of contem plation and is full of practical vspel; text, Job xxVill, 18, "No men-lion shall be made of coral." Why do you eay that, inspired drama tist? When you wanted to sest forth the superior value of our religion, you tossed aside the onyx, which 1s used for making exquisite cameos, and the sap phire, sky blue, anvi topaz of rhoiniMc iprism, ankl 'the ruby f frozen Wood, and here you say !hat !the coral, which 5s 'a miracle of shape and a transport f color to those who have studied it 3s not worthy of mention in compari son wif'Jh our holy religion. '"So men tion shall be made of coral." Alt St. Johnsbury, Vt., in a museum built by the chief citizen, as I examined a speci men on the shelf, I flrs't realized what a. holy of holies Ood can build and has built in lUhe temple of one piece of coral. I d.- noit (wonder that Ernst Heckel, the great scientist, while in' Ceyiotn v-as so entranced with Uhe specimens which some Cingalese divers HaU brought up for his inspection that he bimself plunfred inlLo the sea ana went clear under the Wave's at ilhe risk of his life, again and again and again, that he might know more of the coral, the beauty of which he indicates can- no't even be guessed by those who have only seen iit aibove water, and af ter the DOlvps. Which are its sculptors ami architects, Wave dieid and the chief glories o!f the.se submarine flowers have expired. Job in miy text did not mean to depreciate this divine sculp ture in the coral reefs along the saa- coasts. CSTo one can. afford t'o depreciate thesie white palaces of the deep, built un'der God's direction, lie never changes h.is plan for the building of the Mam-da and shores, and for uncounted thous ands of years the coral gardens anid the coral castle and the coral battle merits go on and up. 1 charge you that you will please God and please yourself Sf you will go into the minute examina tion of the corals their foundations, their pinnacles, their aisles, their pil- lars, their curves, their cleavages, their reticulation, their grouping families of them, towns of them and continents of them. Indeed you cannot appreciate the meaning of my text unless you know something of the coral iabyr in -thlan, ste'llar, columnar, floral, dented like shields from battle, spotted like leopards, embroidered J ike lace, hung like upholstery twilight and aurora3 and sunbursts of beauty! From deep crimson to milk white are its' colors. You may find this wark of God through the animalcules 80 fathoms down1, or amid the breakers, where the sea clashes the wildest and beats the might iest and bellows the loudest. These crea'tures are ever busy. IN'cw they build islands 'in the centre of the Paci fic ocean. "Now they lift barriers around the continent. Indian ocean, Hied sea and coast of Zanzibar have specimens1 of their irifinlte'siimal but Bubli'me masonry. 'At the recession of It he fides you may in some places see the top of their Alpine elevations, while (elsewhere nothing but the deeip sea soundings from the decks of the Chal lenger, the Porcupine and the Lightn ing of the British expedition can an nounce them. The ancient Gauls em ployed the coral to adorn their helmets and the hilts of swords. In many lanids 'it has been used as amulet's. The Algerian reefs in one year (1873) had at work amid the coral 311 vessels, with 3,150 sailors, yielding in profit $565,000. But the secular and woridly value of the coral is nothing as com pared with the morail and religious, as iwtoen, in my text, Job employs It In comparison. T do not 'know how any one can. examine a coral the size of . the thumb nail without bethinking himself otf God and) worshiping h'im, and feeling the opposite of the great Infidel surgeon lecturing to the medical students in the dissecting room upon a. human eye which he held in his hand, showing its wonders of architec ture and adaptation, when the idea of God flashed upon him so powerfully he cried out to the students, "Gentle men, there is a God, but I hate him!" Picking up a coral, I feel like crying out, 4 There is a God, and I adore him!" GOD ANI THE BEAUTIFUL. 'Nothing' so impresses) me with the ifact that our God loves the beautiful. The most beautiful coral in the world never comes to human' observation Sunrises and sunsets lie hongs up for nations to look at; he may green the grass and round the dew Into pearl and set on fire autumnal foliage to please mortal sight, but those thous ands of miles of coral achievement I think he has had built for his own de light. In those galleries he alone can walk. The music of those keys, played on by the fingers of the wave, he only con hear. (The snow of that white and the bloom of that crimson he alone ean see. Having garnitured this world fto please the human race and lifted a glorious heaven 'to pdease the angelic intelligencies, I am glad that he has planted these gardens of the deep to please himself, "But here and there God allows specimens of submarine glory 'to be brought up and set before I speak these great nations of zoo phytes, mcandr totals, and mad repores, with tentacles for trowel, are building just such coral as we find in our text. The diamond may be more rare, the 'Crystal may be more sparkling, the chrysprase may be more ablaze, but ( the coral is the long, deep, everlasting blush of the sea. Yet 'Job, who under stood all kitnxla of precious stones, de clares that the beauty and value of the coral "are nothing compared wifth our coralline formation and looks at ft and flBngs it aside with all the other beau tiful things he (has ever heard of and cries out In ecstasy of admiration1 for ftfoe Siuperior quaffitdes of our religion, No menton shall be made of coral." Take my hand land' we' will walk through this .bower of -the sea wlhlle I show you that" even exquisite coral is not worthy of b-laigcompared w5t?i the richer JefweHJp' rls'ttan soul. The in looking at ?d accumu- klike Goto paxJ, but Is an outbutting and an otit- bronching of ages. In Polynesia there are reefs hundreds of feet deep ana 1,000 miles long. Who built tlrese reefs. these islands? The zoophytes, the corallines. They were not such work ers wh built the pyramids as were these masons, these creatures of the sea. hat small treat Jons amounting to what vast aggregation! Who can estimate the agis between the time when the madrepores laid the founda tions of the islands and the time when the madepores' put on the capstone of a completed work? It puzzles all the scientists to guess through how many years the corallines were building the Sandwich and Society islands su&d the 'Marshall and Gilbert groups. But more slowly and wonderfully accumu lative is grace 5n the heart. You some times get discouraged because the up building by the soul does not go on more rapidly. Why, you have all eter nity to build in. The little annoyances of life are zoophyte builders, and there will be small layer on top of small lay er and fossilized grief. Grace does net go up rapidly in your sou3, but, blessed be God, it goes up. Ten thousand mil lion ages will not finish you. You will never be finished. On forever! Up forever! Out of the sea of earthly dis quietude will gradually rise the reefs, the islands, the continents, the hemi spheres of grandeur and glory. Men talk as though In this life we only had time to build. 'But what we build in this life as compared with what we shall build in the next life is as a striped shell to Australia. You go into an architect's study and there you see the sketch of a temple, the cornerstone of which has not been laid. Oh, that I could have an architectural sketch of what you will be after eternity has wrought upon you! What! pillars of strength! What altars of supernal worship!' What pharmacies thrusting their glittering spikes into the sun that never sets! You do not scold the corallines because they cannot buHd an island in a day. Why should you scold yourself because you cannot com plete a temple of holiness for the heart in this short lifetime? You tell me we do not amount to much now, but try us after a thousand million ages of hal leluiah. Let us hiear the angels chant for a million' centuries. Give us an eternity with Odd and then see If we do not amount to something. More slow ly and marvellously accumulative rs the grace in the soul than anything I can think of. "No mention shall be made of coral." THE VIRTUE OF PATIENCE. 'Lord, help us to learn' that which most of us are deficient in patience! If thou canst take, through the sea anemones millions of years to build one bank of coral, ought we not to be will ing to do work through ten years of 50 years without complaint, without rest lessness, without chafing of spirit? Patience with the erring; patience that we cannot hUve the millennium in a few weeks; patience with assault of antagonists; patience at what seems a slow fulfillment of -Bible promises; pa tience with physical ailments; patience under deiays of providence; grand.glor Ibus , all enduring, all conquering pa tience: '.Patience like that which my lately ascended friend, Dr. Abel Stev ens, describes when wri'ting of one of Wesley's preachers, Jbhn Nelson, who, when a man had Mm put in prison by false charges and being for a long time tormented by his enemy, said, "The Lord lif ted up a sftandard when the an ger was coming on like a flood, else I should have wrung Wis neck to the ground and set my foot upon it." Pa tience like that of Pericles-, the Ahthe nian statesman, who, when a man per &ued him to his own door, burling at him epithets and arriving there when it had become dark, sent 'h'is servant wilth a torch to light h'is enemy back to tills home. Patience like the eulogized by the 'Spanish proverb when it says, "I have lost the rings, but there are the fingers sltiill." (Patience! The sweetest sugar for the sourest cup; the balance wheel for all mental and mora! ma tihlnery; the foot that treads inlto pia c'idiity sto-nmieslt lake; the bridle for O'therwise rash tongues; the sublime si lence that conquers the boisterous and blatant- Patience like that of the most fillustrious examtple of all the age Jesus Christ; patience under betrayal; patient under the treatment of Pilate's oyer and terminer; patient under the expectoration of his assailants ; patient under flagellation ; pa'tientt under the charging spears of the Roman cavatlry; patient iuntb death. Under all exesper ations employ it.- Whatever comes, stand it. Hold on, wait, bear up. CHRISiTIAN' HOPE. Take my hand again, and we will go a little further into this garden of- the sea, and we Bhall find that in propor tion a3 the clima'te is hot tbe coral A Shattered Nervous System. FINALLY HEART TROUBLE. Restored to Health by Dr. M ties' Nervine. MR. EDWARD HARDY, the Jolly man ager of Sheppard Co's. great store at Braceville, 111., writes: "I had never been sick a day In my life until In 1S00. I got so bad with nervous prostration that I had to giro up and commence to doctor. I tried our local physicians and cfne In Joliet, but none gave me any relief and I thought I was going to die. I became despondent and suffered untold agony. I could not eat, sleep nor rest, and It seemed as If I could sot exist. At the end of six months I was reduced to but a shadow of myself, and at last; my heart became affected and I was truly miserable. I took six or eight bottles of Dr. Miles Nervine. It gave me relief from the start, and at last a cure, the great est blessing of my life.' Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug gists under a positive guarantee, flrst bottle benefits c . money re funded. Book on dis eases of the heart and fKcrvinp nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL OO, Elkhart, IncL Largest package greatest economy. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRDAXK. COM PAX Y, Chicago. St. Louis. New York. Boston. Philadelphia. wealthy. Draw two Isothermal lines at GO de-css north and "south of the equator, and you-find the favorite home of the coral. Go to the hottest part of the Pacific seas and you find the finest specimens of coral. Coral is a child of the fire. But more wonder fully do the heats and fires of trouble bring out the jewels of the Christian, soul. Those are not the stalwart men who are asleep on the shaded lawn, but those who are poundilng amid the furnaces. I do not know of any other way of getting a thorough Christian ; character. I will show you a picture. ! Here are a father and a mother 30 or 35 years of age, -their family around them. lit is 'Sabbath morning. - They ; have prayers. They hear the children's catechism. They have prayers every day of the week. They are in humble circumstances. !But, after aiwh'ile the wheel of fortune turns up and the man gets his $20,000. Now he has prayers on Satibath and every day of the week, but he has dropped the catechism, j ever the world may 'have ithought of The wheel of fortune turns up again, ! her, there iweie two thought well your and he gets his $80,000. Now he has father, who had admired her for fifty prayers on Sabbath morning alone, j years, and ycu, over whom she bent Ilhe wheel of fortune keeps turning up, I wiith. so many ten'der ministrations, and he has $200,000, and now he has ' When you 'think cf the angels of God prayers on Sabbath morning when, he f and your mother amcng them, she out feels like it and there is no company. shines them a?l. Oh, that our young The wheel of fortune keeps on turning up, and he- has his $300,000 and no prayers at all. Four leaf clover in a pasture field is not so Tare as family prayers in the house of people who have more than $300,000. "But now the wheel of fortune turns down, and the man looses $200,000 out of the $300,000. Xciw on Salbbath morning he is on a stepladder -looking for a Buble under the old newspapers on. the bookcase. He is going to have prayers. IHis af fairs ace more and more complicated and after awhile crash goes his last dollar. 'Now he has prayers every morning and he hears Ms grandchildren the catechism. 'Prosperity took him away from God; adversity drove h'im back to God. Hot climate to- make the coral;- hot and scaMing trouble to make the jewels of grace in the soul. We all hate trouble and yet it does a great deal of good for us. You have heard! perhaps of that painter who wished to get an expression, of great distress for his canvas and who had his servant lash a man fast and Tut him to great torture, and then the artist caught the look on the victim's face and immediately transferred H fco the" canvas. Then he safld to the s'3rv anit, "More torture," and under more torture there was a more thorough ex pression of pain, and. the artist said: "Step there. Wait till I catch that ex pression. There! Now I have it upon the canvas. Leit . loose the victim. I have a work that will last forever." "Oh," you say, "hie was an inhiuman painter!" No d'eubt about iit. tTron bie is cruel and inhuman, but he is a great painter and out of our tears and blood1 on h'is palette he mokes oolcrs that never die. Oh, that it might be a picture of Christian, fortitude, of shin ing hope! On the day I was Hcensed to preach the gospel an old Christian man took my hand and said, MMy son, when ycu get in a tight corner on Saturday night, without any sermon, send for me, and I will preach for you." Well, at was a great encouragement to be backed up by such a good old minister, and it was not long before I got into a tight cor ner on Saturday might, without any sermon, and I sent for the old minister, and he came and preached, and it was the last sermon he ever preached. All the tears I cried at hiis funeral cculd 'not express my affection for that mam, who was willing to help me out cf a tight corner. Ah, my friends, that is what we all wantsomebody to help us out of a tight corner. You are in one now. How do I know it? I am used to judging of human countenan ces, and I see beyond the smiJe end beyond the courageous look with wtiich you hide your feelings from others. I know you are in a tight corner. What to do? Do as I did when 1 sent for old Dr. Scottt. (Do better than I did send for the Lord God of (Daniel, and of Joshua, and of every other man who got into a tight corner. '"Oh," tays some one, "iwhy cannot God develop me 'through prosperity dnstead of through adversity?" I wilt answer your question by asking another. Winy does not God dye cur northern eas with coral? You say, "The water is not hot enough." There! In, answer ing my question you have answered your own. Mot climate for richest specimens of coral; hot trouble for the Jewels of the soul. The coral fishers going cut from Torre del Grecoo never brought ashore such fine specimens as are brought out of the scalding surges of misfortune I look, down in to The tropical sea, and there is something that looks like blood, and I say, "Has there been a great battle down there?" Seeming blood scattered all and down the reefs. It ds the bfcood of the coral, and it makes me h'tink of those who come out of great tribulation- and hove their robes washed white in the .blood of the Lamb. But these gems of earth are nothing to the gems of heaven ."No mention shall be mode of coral." lAgain, I take your bared and we.wti,!.k on through this garden of the' seas aid took more particularly than we did at the beauty of the coral. The p-oia have all been fascinated with It. One of them wrote: .- There, with a (broad and easy motion. The fan- coral sweeps through the clear deet sea, - And the yellow and scallet tufts of the ocean : Are bent like corn on the upland lea. . CORAL SPECIMENS. One specimen of coral la called the denidrophJlia fbecatrse it is like a tree; another is called the astrara because it Is like a star; another is called the fan coral because it 4s like the in strument with which you cool yourself on a hot day; another specimen is call ed the organ pipe coral because it. re sembles the kind of musical Instru ments. All the ficwers and all the shrubs in the gardens of the land have their correspondencies ia this garden of the sea. Coralhim! It is a synonym for beauty. (And yet there 4s no beau ty in the coral compared with our re ligion. It gives phyisognomlc beauty. It does not change the f eatunes. It does not give features with which the per son was not originally endowed, -but It sets behfind the features of the liomli est person a heaven that shines clear through. So that often on first ac quaintance ycu said of a man, "He is ithe homliest person I ever saw," when after ycu come to understand him and his nobility of soul shining through his countenance, you said, ,1He is the love liest person I ever satw." No one ever had a homely Christian mother. What- people could understand that- tClre is nothing that so m:uch beautifies the human ccimtenance as the religion of Jesus Christ. It makes everything beautiful. Trouble beautiful. Sdck ness beautiful. Tisippo':n'msnt beau tiful. Everyilhiing beautifr!. Near my "early home tUv was a place called the Two Brid. These bridges leaped the two streams Well, my friends, the religion of Jesus Christ Is two bridges. It bridges all tae post. It arches and overscans all the future. It makes the dying pillow ''Jhe landing place of amgels fresh from glory. It turns the sepuleher into a May time or chard1. It catches up the dying into full orchestra. Ccrattum! And yet that "does -not express the beauty. "No mention shall be made of coral." I take yetar hand again and walk a J Tit'tle farther on in this garden of the ' sea and I n'cttioa the d mobility of the work of the coral. Montgomery speaks of it. He ays, "Frail were their forms, j ephemeral their liives, their masonry ; limrtfIris,ha,rl!.', K'htizoccds are insects So -small that they are invisible, and ; yet 'they built the 'Aipennines and they j planted for their own mon'ument the ! to make one grain. Corals are chang- ! ing the navigation cf the seia, saying to t'h!3 ccmafierce of the wcrld, "Take ' this Chiimel," "Take tktat channel," j "Avoid the other channfel." Animal ' cules beating back the (Atlantic and Pacl'fic iscas. If the Ins'e'eti? cf t!he oeeam Wave built a reef 1,000 m'Mes long, who knews but that tlh'jy may yet build a reef 3,000 m'iles long, and thus that by one stone (bridge Europe shall be united with this continent to one side ami by another stdne Ibii'dge Asia wlM be united with t'hiis contineint on the olhcr side, and the t'curjst cf the worl'd, with out the turn of a steamer's whleel or the spread' of a ship's sial, may go aM arournd 'the world, and thus be fulfi'lle-d the prophecy, 'There shall 'be no more sea." WORK THAT ENDURES. But the -durability of the coral's work is not at all to be compared with the durabUrty of coir woik cf God. The coral is going to crumble in the fires cf the last day, but cur twork for God will endure forever. 'No- mrcre Giiscoimagetd man ever lived th'an Beethoven, tine great nruskal ccim'poier. Unmerciful ly criticised by brother artists lainid his music sometimes rejected. Deaf for tweny-five years, and forced on hfe way to Vienna, -to beg food and lodging ?i S ilAJSfi SL Sl tZ cSr theTlarT SnTiftSST cneeics jwraie tney sang ana piayedi Sr? the S Iso to near the singing, was curious to knowjvhat 'was the musicthat so ever- powered them, and mhen they got tti, v. n, . i i, (folio im 'his hand and found it WU9 his own music Beethoven's "Symphony In A" and hec ried out, wrote that!" The household sat and stood abaished to find that their poor Looking guest was the great composer. But he never left that house alive. !A fever seized him that night, and no relief could be afforded, and in a few days he tiled. But Just before expiring he took the hand Of bis nephew, -who lhad been sent for and arrived, saying, "After all. Hummel, I must have had some tal ent. Poor Beethoven! -His work still lives, and In the twentfieth century will be better appreciated "than it was In the nineteenth, and as long as there Is on earth an orchJestra' to play or an orafttorio to sing, Beethoven's ntoe sym phonies win be the enchantment of na tions. But you are not a composer, and you say that -there i3 nothing remark able about you only a mother trying to rear your family far usefulness and heaven. 'Yet the song with which you sing your child to sleep will never cease Its mission. You will grow old arid die. That don will pass out Into the -world. The song with "which you sang' hm to sleep last night will go with, hem while toe lives, a conscfous or unconscioxis restraint and Inspiration here and may help open to him the gate of a gloriaus and trhimphant here after. The. lullabies of this century will sing through all the centuries. The humblest good axxomplished in time wn last through eternity, I sometimes get discouraged, as I suppose you do. trie vastness of the work and at how frttle we are dotnjg. And yet. do you suppose the rMxopod said, 'There is no need of my working; I canot build the Cordilleras ?" Do you suppose the ; nsadrepcre said, 'ntcre Is no rrced of . my working; 1 cannot ouua me oana i twi&h. Islands V Each one attended to liis own Artjslnces, and There are ths Sandwich Islands And there sure the ' cordiKeras. Ah. roy frksvfs, the re- drenption of this world Is a great en- UrprCe. Id id not see It start; I will ' tm in this world see Its dese. 'I am only an insect- as compared with the ' great work he done, but yet I must tlo my part. Help buSid Vats e'iernal ' coraMum I rwilL CMy parents toiUvl on : this re?f long before I was bwrn. I pcay God that my children may toil on tYla reef lontr after I am dead. Ins?cw a:i of us, but honored by God to her' heave tip the reef of light across which shall break the oetaa's immortal gladness! Botttr be imtgnificani and useful than great and Idle. The mas tvdoo3 and megatheriums of the earth. ; what did they do but stark thir great ! corcasses across the land and fceave ; their s5edt)ons through the strata, s while the ocral lines went cnx heaving I up the islands all covered with fruit age and verdure? Better be a coral line than a mastodon. So now I am tryiUJ to make one little coralline. Th? polyp picks out of Che wave that rrutes it carbonate of rim?, and with that builds up Its own irjscctile masorjry. So out of the wave of your tears I take the salt; oat of the bruise I take the blue, and out of your bleeUmg heart I take the red, and out of them altogeth er I make this coral, which I pray may not be disowned "in the day when God makes up his jewels. " POWER OF LITTLE THINGS. Eittle things decide great things. All that tremendous career of the last Na polean hanging on' the harAl of a brakemen wWo, on one of our American railways, oaug'bt htm as he was falling between tfhe cars of a Hying train. The battle of Dunbar was decided agaiaist the Scotch because their matches bad given ou-t. Aggregations of little things that pull Uown or bu3d up. When an army or a regiment come to a bridge, 'they are al ways comimarjded to break ranks, for their simultaneous tread Will destroy the strongest bridge. 'A bridge at AngLers, France, and a bridge at Broughton, England, went iavn fle cause the regimeoit kept step whiM'- crossing. Aggregations of temptation, aggregations of sorrow, aggregations of aissaults, aggregations of Christ ion ef fort, aggregations of self sacrificed these make the irresistible powier to demolish cr to uplift, to destroy or n teae. 'Little causes and great results. Christianity was introduced into Japan by the falling oveiboai-d of a pocket Bible from a sh'ip in the harbor of Tokyo. i Written on the fly leaf of one of my books by one Vhom God took to him se'lf out of our hous.ilh.old were the fol lowing WOTds. 1 do not know whv ocmposed theim. Perhaps she compos ed them herself: , Not a sfciarrow falleth but its God dot'h knoiw, Just as twhen his marJJate lays a mon arch lew; Not a leaflet vaveth but its God doth see. j Think not, then, O trembler, God for- 'getttith tnee! Ttcr mere percious suraly than the birdW that fly Is a iFather's 'image to a Father's eye. E'en thine haiT3 aire nuirrJbered. TruiDt him full and free. Cast thy claire upon him, and he'll care for thee. Fcr the Cod that planted in thy breast a soul On his sacred 'tables doth thy name enroll. Cheer thine heart, thou trerrJbUr, never faithless be. He that m'aik's the sparrdw will re member thee. Oh, be encouraged! Do rht any man say, '".My wxiik is so small." Do not any woman say, "My work 'is Intstg iiifioant. I cannot do anything for the upbu'ilding of God's kingdom." Ycu can. Reme'n:Jler the corallines. A Chriitiao mcther sat sewCng a garment and her little grl wanted to hslp her, and so she sewed on anio'ther piece of the same garment and broug'ht it 'to her mother, and the work vus carre'et ed. It was imperfect and had f le all taken exit again. But did the moth er ch'ii'e the child? Oh, no. She said, "SW wanted to help me, and she d'kl ai3 well as she cYt3d." 'And so the mcther blessed (the child, and while she blessed the child shi thought Of herself and said: "Pcrhap3 'It may be so wvJh our poor work at the last. G'od will look at it. It may 'be -ery Jimperfect, and I know it Is very crook ed. 'He may Wave tb take It all out. s Mm,and he knewu it ds the best that I j rf , Tf,NT.f, , Carian work. Five thousand minion me coraHum. And i Wna cam' antt k I wonderful. S an the day the world's re- I fehaJ1 consummated, arM the nj all tJte minkni3 of onris- j in rolled on this stTUCtuire be read, the wiI1 apjKiar and' - oh,wrT1, 'ZTZ,, XI uui ability so everlasting that "no mention hall be made of the Coral." An Iowa Dank Suspends Oskaloosa, Iowa, December 30. The Farmers and Traders' State bank closed Its doors today. The following card from the directors was displayed: "This bank will receive no more de posits, but will at once pay Its deposi tors in full as fast as their claims may be presented." The bank has found business unprof itable and it was the sentiment of the great majority of stockholders to go- out of business. Tutfs Pills Cure All Liver Ills. Save Your Money. One box of Tutt's Pills will save many dollars in doctors bills They willsurely cure al! diseases of the stomach, liver or bowels. 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ALL OF OUR HOLIDAY GOODS ARC SOLD AND WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE NEW YEAR BY REPLEN ISHING WITH A FULL AND COM PLETE LINE OF Meats, Flours, Rice, . Molasses, Sugar, Coffees, Etc. WRITE FOR PRICES. ' T W. B. Cooper, Wholesale Grocer and Commission Mer chant. Wilmington N. C. A Pleasant Evening gives a delightful finish to the day. Noth ing is more agreeable than music when It emanates from the which are the finest home Instruments In this country. Everyone who has pur chased a Piano from us is highly pleased with the result. It's quite impossible for (in Inferior piano to masquerade as some ihlng better. It has neither quality, tone oor durabiltiy. The Stleft Piano sells on ts own merits. Standard Organs. " Tuning and repairing. v f Accommmodatlng Terms. CIIAULES M. STIEFF. BALTIMOT1TC-9 N. Liberty St. WA8!IiNG'JYN-2l Eleventh St., N.W. NORFOLK, VA.-416 Main St -CHARLOTTE. N. C.-Z13 N. Tryon St. no 21 3m S. iP. McNAIR, WHOLESALE GROCER AUD . PfliniMIAAIliN IIamaLmmA uumiiiiddiuii ivieiuiiciiii N. Water8t..:wi Imlnjjton. W, C Offers to the Trade!: FEED OATS, FLOUR. NAILS. CHOC SUGAR. CANDIES. CRACKERS, CON CENTRATED LYE, BUTTER, 2IOLA0 8ES, VrNEQAR. PEANUTS, CORW, FISH. BAKINO POWDER, UaTCBX CANNED GOODS. COFFEE, 8FICZ3 AND RICH. con urn see ce or w n Pnces God iera A CHANGE. WE ADMIT A CHANGE 15 THIS SPACE IS NOW 15 OB DEB, AS THE PEOSPECTS ABE NOT SO BRIGHT AS .THEY WERE. WE "WILL ftFLP YOU OUT IF YOU WILL SEND US YOUR ORDERS FOB 01 II REMEMBER, OUR MOTTO IS TO PLEASE OUR CUSTOMERS, McNAIR&PEARSALL oo 24 ntt YOUnSELFf Cm Biff i for aoaatmm, dischargeo, InOunaMttloM, inittloBf or tlcratkc t of n I CPU BMOBbntDO. Paiokwa. od not utrlm. t mine:; OircaUr mat oa numl