The Wahpeton times. [volume], November 03, 1887, Image 5

About The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919

Image provided by: State Historical Society of North Dakota

                
e.
DEFENSE OF YOUNG MEN.
DIVINE SERVICES IN THE BROOK
LYN TABERNACLE.
Dr. Talmage'i Advice to Those About
Starting In T.lfc So Wqr to GMMIIIM
Success Except Through Toll of Either
Head or Hand.
BROOKLYN,Oct.
30.—Six thousand people,
sitting and standing in the Brooklyn Taber
nacle, and all the adjoining rooms pwlrwl
and people turned away 1 Such was the scene
today. The congregation sang:
'Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve,
And press with vigor on.
The Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D.,
preached on the subject: "Defense of Young
Men," and took his text from II Kings vi, 17:
'"And the Lord opened the eyes, at the young
man." He said:
One morning in Dothaa a young theologi
cal student was scared by finding himself and
Elislin, the prophet, upon whom he waited,
surrounded by a whole army of nwamiaa. But
venerable Elisha was not scared at all, be
cause he saw the mountains full of •irfiw'
for him, in chariots made out of fire, wheels
of fire, dashboard of fire and cushions of fire,
drawn by horses with nostrils of fire, and
manes of fire, and haunches of fire, ""1 hoofs
of fire—a supernatural appearance that could
not be seen with the natural eye. So the old
minister prayed that the young minfafaw
might see them also, and the prayer was an
swered, and the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man and he also saw the fiery proces
sion, looking somewhat, I suppose, like the
Adirondacks or the Alleghanies in Uifa au
tumnal resplendence.
Many young men, standing among the
most tremendous realities, have their eyes
half shut or entirely closed. May God grant
that my sermon may open wide your eyes to
your safety, your opportunity and your des
tiny.
A mighty defense for a young m«i is a
good home. Some of my hearers look back
with tender satisfaction to their early home.
It may have been rude and rustic, hidden
among the hills, and architect or upholsterer
never planned or adorned it. But all the
fresco on princely walls never looked so en
ticing to you as those rough hewn rafters.
You can think of no park or arbor of trees
planted on fashionable country seat so at
tractive as the plain brook that ran in front
of the old farmhouse and sang under
the weeping willows. No barred gateway,
adorned with statue of bronze, and swung
open by obsequious porter in full dress, has
half the glory of the swing gate. Many of
you have a second dwelling place, your
adopted home, that also is sacred forever.
There you built the first family altar. There
your children were born. All those trees
you planted. That room is solemn,
once in it, over the hot pillow, flapped the
wing of death. Untjer that roof you expect
when your work is done to lie down and die.
You try with many words to tell the excel
lency of the place, but you fail. There isonly
one word in the language that can describe
your meaning. It is home.
Now, I declare it that young m«i is com
paratively safe who goes out into the world
with a charm like this upon him, The mem
ory of parental solicitude, watching, plan
ning and praying, wiil be to him a shield and
a shelter. I never knew a m»w faithful both
to his early and adopted home, who at the
same time was given over to any gross form
of dissipation or wickedness. He who
his enjoyment chiefly from outside associa
tion, rather than from the more quiet
nn(^
unpresuming pleasures of which I have
spoken, may be suspected to be on the broad
road to ruin. Absalom despised his father's
house, and you know his history of sin and
his death of shame. If you seem unneces
sarily isolated from your kindred and former
associates, is there not some room that you
can call your own? Into it gather books and
pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over
the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand back
from the threshold. Consecrate some spot
with the knee of prayer. By the memory of
cither days, a father's counsel and a mother's
love, and a sister's confidence, call it home.
Another defense for a young man is
trious habit. Many young men, in starting
upon life in this age, expect to make their
way through the world by the use of their
wits rather than the toil of their hands. A
child now goes to the city and fails twice be
fore he is as old as his father was when he
first saw the spires of the great town. Sit
ting in some office, rented at $1,000 a year,
he is waiting for the bank to declare its divi
dend, or goes into the market expecting be
fore night to be made rich by the rushing up
of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he re
solved on some other tack. Perhaps he bor
rowed from his employer's money drawer,
and forgets to put it back, or for merely the
purpose of improving his penmanship makes
a copy plate of a merchant's signature Never
mind, all is right in trade. In some dark
night there may come in his dreams a vision
of Blackwell's Island, or of Sing Sing,
but it soon vanishes. In a short
he will be ready to retire from the busy
world, and amid his flocks and herds culture
the domestic virtues. Then those young men
who once were his schoolmates, and knew no
better than .to engage in honest work, will
come with their ox teams to draw him logs
and with their hard hands help heave up his
cattle. This is no fancy picture. It is every
day life. I should not wonder if there were
some rotten beams in that beautiful palace.
I should not wonder If dire sicknesses should
smite through the young man, or if God
should pourTnto his cup of life a draught
that would thrill him with unbearable agony.
1 should not wonder if his children should
become to him a living curse, making his
home a pest and a disgrace. I should not
wonder if he goes to a miserable grave, and
beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. The
way of the ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way to genu
ine success except through toil either of the
head or hand. At the battle of Crecy in
1340 the prince of Wales, finding himself
heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to
his father for help. The father, watching
the battle from a windmill and seeing that
his son was not wounded and could gain the
day if he would, sent word: "No I will not
come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, if
God will, I desire that this day be his with
all its honors." Young man, fight your own
battle all through and you shall have the
victory. Oh, it is a battle worth fighting.
Two monarchs of old fought a duel, Charles
and Francis, and the stakes were king
doms—Milan and Burgundy. You fight with
sin and the stake is heaven or hell
Do not get the fatal idea that you are a
genius, and that therefore there is no need
of close application. It is here where multi
tudes fail. The great curse of this age is the
geniuses, men with enormous self conceit and
egotism, and nothing else. I had rather be an
ox than an eagle plain,, and plodding, and
useful, rather than high flying and good for
nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses.
Extraordinary capacity without use is extra
ordinary failure. There is no hope for that
person who begins life resolved to live by
his wits, for the probability is he has not
any. It was not safe for Adam, even in his
Mrfallen state, to have nothing to
Subscribe for The Times, Official Paper
of City and County.
dot ®'i therefore, God commanded
him to be a farmer and horticulturist.
Ha was to dress the garden and
keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed the
divine injunction and been at work, they
would not have been sauntering under the
trees and hungering after that fruit which
destroyed them and their posterity proof
positive for all ages to come that those who
do hot attend to their business are sure to get
into miachief. I do not know that the prod
igal in Scripture would ever have been re
claimed had he not given up his idle
and gone to feeding swine for a living. "Go
to the ant, thou sluggard consider her ways
and be wise, which, having no overseer or
guide, provideth her food in the summer and
gathereth her meat in the harvest." The
devil does not so often attack the nun who
is busy *rtth the pen, and the book, and the
trowel, and the saw, and the hammer. He
is afraid of those weapons. But woe to that
man whom this roaring lion meets with his
hands in his pockets. Do not demand
that your toil always be elegant, and
cleanly and refined. There is a certain
amount of drudgery through which we
must all pass, whatever be our occupation.
You know how men are sentenced—a certain
number to years of prison, and after they
have suffered and worked out the time, then
they are allowed to go free. And so it is
with all of us. God passed on us the sen
tence: "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou
eat bread." We must endure our time of
drudgery, and then, after a while, we will be
allowed to go into comparative liberty. We
must be willing to endure the sentence. We
all know what drudgery is connected with
the beginning of any trade or profession, but
this does not continue all our lives, if it be
the student's or the merchant's or the me
chanic's life, I know you have at
tiie beginning many a hard time
but after a while these things will
become easy. You will be your own master.
God's sentence will be satisfied. You will be
discharged from prison. Bless God that you
have a brain to think, and hands to work,
and feet to walk with, for in your constant
activity, O young man, is one of your strong
est deienses. Put your trust in God and do
your vel best. That child had it right when
the horses ran away with the load of wood,
and he sat upon it. When asked if he was
frightened, he said: "No, I prayed to God
and hung on liko a beaver."
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will be to the young man a powerful preserv
ative against evil. God has thrust into the
toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when
the soul is especially to be fed. It is no new
fangled notion of a wild brained reformer,
but an institution established at the begin
ning. God has made natural and moral laws
so harmonious that the body as well as the
soul demands this institution. Our bodies
are seven day clocks, that must be wound up
as often as that, or they will run down.
Failure must come sooner or later to the man
who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has
called it the Lord's day, and he who devotes
it to the world is guilty of robbery. God
will not let the sin go unpunished, either in
this world or the world to come. This is the
statement of a man who had broken this di
vine enactment:
"I was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I used to rest,
but never regarded God in it. One beautiful
Sabbath, when the noise was all hushed and
the day was all that loveliness could make it,
I sat down on my piazza and went to work
inventing a new shuttle. I neither stopped
to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By
that time I bad the invention completed.
The next morning I exhibited it, boasted of
my day's work and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked well, but that
Sabbath day's work cost me $30,000. We
branched out and enlarged, and the curse of
heaven was upon me from that day onward."
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, God's
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed in
fluence over all the week. The song and ser
mon and sanctuary will hold back from pre
sumptuous scenes. That young man who
begins the duties of life with either secret or
open disrespect of the holy day, I venture to
prophesy, will meet with no prominent suc
cesses. God's curse will fall upon his ship,
his store, his office, his studio, his body and
his souL The way of the wicked he turneth
upside down. In one of the old fables it was
said that a wonderful child was born in Bag
dad and a magician could hear his footsteps
6,000 miles away. But'I can hear in the foot
step of that young man, on his way to the
house of worship this morning, step not only
of a lifetime of usefulness, but the coming
step of eternal joys of heavens yet millions
of miles away.
Again, a noble ideal and confident expecta
tion of approximating to it will infallibly
advance. The artist contemplates, in his
mind the great thought that he wishes to
transfer to the canvas or the marble before
he takes up the crayon or the chiseL The
architect plans out the entire structure be
fore be orders the workmen to begin, and
though there may for along while seem to be
nothing but blundering and rudeness, he has
in his mind every Corinthian wreath and
Gothic arch and Byzantine capital. The poet
arranges the entire plot before he begins to
chime the first canto of tingling rhythms.
And yet, stranger to us, there are men who
attempt to build their character without
knowing whether in theend it shall be a rude
traitor's den or a St Mark's of Venice.
Men who begin to write the intricate
poem of their lives without knowing
whether it shall be a Homer's "Odyssey" or a
rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and ninety
nine men out of a thousand are living without
any great life plot. Booted and spurred and
plumed, and urging their swift courser in the
hottest haste. I come out and ask: "Halloo,
man, whither away?" His response is, "No
where." Rush into the busy shop or store of
many a one, fuid taking the plane out of the
man's hand and laying down the yardstick
say: "What, man, is all this about, so much
stir and sweats" The reply will stumble
and break down between teeth and
lips. Every day's duty ought only
to be the following up of the main plan of
existence. Let men be consistent. If they
prefer misdeeds to correct courses of action,
then let them draw out the design of knav
ery and cruelty and plunder. Let every day's
falsehood and wrong doing be added as color
ing to the picture. Let bloody deeds red
stripe the canvas, and the clouds of a wrath
ful God hang down heavily over the canvas,
ready to break out in clamorous tempest
Let the waters be chafed, a froth tangle, and
green with immeasurable depths. Then take
a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the
frame of the picture the right name for it
namely, the "Soul's Suicide." If one entering
upon sinful directions would only in his mind,
or on paper, draw out in awful reality
this dreadful future, he would recoil from it
and say: "Am I a Dante, that by my own
life I should write another 'Inferno?1" But
if you are resolved to live a life such as God
and good men will approve, do not let it be a
vague dream, an indefinite determination
but in your mind or upon paper sketch it in
all its minutiae. You cannot know the
changes to which you may be subject, but
you may know what always will be right and
always will be wrong. Let gentleness, and
charity, and veracity, ud faith stand in the
heart of the sketch. On some stil
brook's bank make a lamb and lion Us
down together. Draw two or three of the
trees of life, not frost stricken, nor ice glased,
nor wind stripped, but with thick verdure
waving like the palms of heaven. On the
darkest cloud place the rainbow, that billow
of the dying storm. You need not burn the
title on the frame. The dullest will catch
the design at a glance and say: "That is the
road to heaven." Ah, me! On
There are magnificent possibilities before
each of you young men of the stout heart,
and the buoyant step and the bounding
spirit I would marshal you for grand
achievement. God now provides for you the
fleet and the armor and the fortifications.
Who is on the Lord's side? The captain of the
zouaves in ancient times, to encourage them
against the immense odds on the side of their
enemies, said: "Come,-my men, look these
fellows in the face. They are 0,000, you are
300. Surely the match is even." That
speech gave them the victory. Be not, my
hearer, dismayed at any time by what seems
an immense odds against you. Is fortune, is
want of education, are men, are devils
against you? Though the multitudes of earth
and hell confront you, stand up to the
charge. With 1,000,000 against you the
match is just even. Nay, you have a decided
advantage. If God be for us, who can be
against us? Thus protected, you need not
spend much time in answering your assail
ants.
Many years ago word came to me that two
impostors, as temperance lecturers, had been
speaking in Ohio in various places and giv
ing their experience, and they told their
andiencc that they had long been intimate
with mo mid had liecome drunkards by dining
at my table, where I always had liquors of
all sorts. Indignant to the last degree I
went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of
Brooklyn police, saying I was going to start
tlmt night for Ohio to have these vil
lains arrested, and I wanted him to
tell me how to make the arrest. He smiled
and said: "Do not waste your time by chas
ing these men. Go home and do your work,
and they can do you no harm." I took his
counsel and all was well. Long ago I made
up my mind that if one will put his trust in
God and be faithful to duty he need not fear
any evil. Havo God on your side, young
man, and all the combined forces of earth
and hell can do you no damage.
And this leads me to say that the mightiest
of all defense for a young man is the posses
sion of thorough religious principle. Noth
ing can take the place of it. He may have
manners that Would put to shame the grace
fulness and courtesy of a Lord Chesterfield.
Foreign languages may drop from his tongue.
He may be able to discuss literatures and
laws and foreign customs. He may wield a
pen of unequaled polish and power. His quick
ness and tact may qualify him for the high
est salary of the counting house. He may be
as sharp as Herod and as strong as Samson,
with as fine locks as those which hung Absa
lom, still he is not safe from contamina
tion. The more elegant his manner, and the
more fascinating his dress, the more peril.
Satan does not care much for the allegiance
of a coward and illiterate being. He can
bring him into efficient service. But he loves
to storm that castle of character which
in it the most spoils and treasures. It was
not some crazy craft creeping along the coast
with a valueless cargo that the pirate at
tacked, but the ship, full winged and flagged,
plying between great ports, carrying its
million of specie. The more your natural
and acquired accomplishments, tho more
need of tho religion of Jesus. That does not
cut iu upon or hack up any smoothness of
disposition or behavior. It gives symmetry.
It arrests that in the soul which ought to be
arrested, and propels that which ought
to bo propelled. It fills up the gulleys. It
elevates and transforms. To beauty it gives
more beauty, to tact more tact, to enthusiasm
of nature more enthusiasm. When the holy
spirit impresses the imago of God on the
heart ho does not spoil the canvas. If in all
the multitudes of young men upon whom re
ligion has acted you could find one nature
that had been the least damaged, I would
yield this proposition. You may now have
enough strength of character to repel the
various temptations to gross wickedness
which assail you, but I do not know in
what strait you may bo thrust at some
future time. Nothing short of the grace of
the cross may then bo able to deliver you
from the lions. You are not meeker than
Moses, nor holier than David, nor more pa
tient than Job, and you ought not to consider
yourself invulnerable. You may have some
weak point of character that you have never
discovered, and in some hour when you
are assaulted the Philistines will be
upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your
good habits, or your early training, or
your prido of character nothing short
of the arm of Almighty God will be sufficient
to uphold you. You look forward to the
world sometimes with a chilling despondency.
Cheer up! I will tell you how you all may
make a fortune. "Seek first the kingdom of
God and his righteousness and all other things
will be added unto you." I know you do not
want to be mean in this matter. Give God
the freshness of your life. You will not have
the heart to drink down the brimming cup of
life and then pour the dregs on God's
altar. To a Saviour infinitely generous
you have not the heart to act like
that That is not brave, that is not
honorable, that is not manly. Your greatest
want in all the world is anew heart. In God's
name I tell you that. And the Blessed Spirit
presses through the solemnities and privi
leges of this holy hour. Put the cup of life
eternal to your thirsty lips. Thrust it not
back. Mercy otters it, bleeding mercy, long
suffering mercy. Reject all other friend
ships be ungrateful for all other kinHnnea,
prove recreant to all other bargains, but
despise God's love for your immortal soul—
don't you do that.
I would liko to see some of you this hour
press out of the ranks of the world and lay
your conquered spirit at the feet of Jesus.
This hour is no wandering vagabond stagger
ing over the earth it is a winged messenger
of the skies whispering mercy to thy soul.
Life is smooth now, but after awhile it may
be rough, wild and precipitate. There comes
a crisis in tho history of every man. Wo
seldom understand that turning point until
it is far past. The road of life is forked and
I read on two signboards: "This is the way
to happiness," "This is the way to ruin."
How apt we are to pass the forks of the road
without thinking whether it comes out at the
door of bliss or the gates of darkness.
Many years ago I stood on the anniversary
platform with a minister of Christ who made
this remarkable statement:
"Thirty years ago two young men started
out in the evening to attend the Park theatre,
New York, where a play was to be acted in
which the cause of religion was to be placed
in a ridiculous and hypocritical light They
f*
thiB
tiiria
sea of
life what innumerable ships, heavily
laden and well rigged, yet some bound
for another port. Swept every whither
of wind and wave, they go up by the
mountains, they go down by the billows, and
are at their wits'end. They sail by no chart,
they watch no star, they long for no harbor.
I beg every young man today to draw out a
sketch of what, by the grace of God, he means
to be, though in excellence so high that you
cannot reach it. He who starts out in life
with a high ideal of character, and faith in
its attainment, will find himself incased from
a thousand temptations.
came to the steps. The consciences of both
smote them. One started to go home, but
returned again to the door, and yet had
not courage to enter, and finally de
parted. But the other young int^^sntered
the pit of the theatre, It was the
turning point in the history of those two
young men. The man who entered was
caught in the whirl of temptation. He m»t
deeper and deeper in infamy. He was lost
The other young man was saved, and he now
stands before you to bless God that for twen
ty years he has been permitted to preach the
Gospel.
"Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and
let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth but know thou that for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment"
"THE BOOK OF BOOKS."
The Story of an Old Udy Who Was
Forced to Pawn the Family Bible.
"It doesn't argue well for people's piety,1*
said one of the largest Bowery pawnbrokers,
"that one of the first things to go to mine
uncle is the family Bible. It's true, of course,
that the book of books is not strictly a thing
of necessity, viewing the matter from a
strictly utilitarian standpoint, and fact
may have much to do with the great number
of Bibles constantly offered us as security for
a loan. Besides, when people resort to the
pawnshop for money they generally have
their sentimentality pretty well knocked out
of them. What I do know, however, is that
a great many of my customers think much
sooner of disposing of their family Bibles
than of their jewels or silk garments. Of
course the demand for such goods is limited
with us, and so I frequently refuse Bibles.
Then, in most cases, other articles of a
greater intrinsic value, such as fine cloaks,
etc., are offered and accepted."
"Do you really sell such Bibles again?"
queried the reporter.
"Why, yes I myself would hardly look in
a pawnbroker's place for it when I wanted
such a thing as a family Bible, but others do,
as I've convinced myself frequently. Thus
the other day a young married couple came
in and bought one of me—an unredeemed
pledge, of course—for less than half price.
It must have been an heirloom once, for the
date and the clasps of solid silver showed
that. And this young couple, beginners in
housekeeping, invested a $5 note in the pur
chase with the same matter of fact air they
would probably have shown in buying a
piano or a rocking chair."
"And dont you remember cases where
people seemed sorry to part with their familv
Bibles?"
"I do—a few, not many. The only case,
however, I recollect where I really sym
pathized with tho pledger was that of an old
broken down lady. She seemed in poor
health and penniless, a widow, apparently, to
judge from her sable weeds. It's several
years ago and she is dead now, poor soul!
She had been leaving a great many things
with me, one after tl{e other, for most of
which I could lend her a fair sum, for,they
were nearly all what you might call articles
de vertu—hat ha! you perceive the pun,
sir?—such as old silverware, a fine set
of carved chessmen, a few miniature paint
ings in ivory, etc. At last she came with
that old Bible. I happened to observe her as
she came. She looked much older, more hag
gard and worse than when I had first seen
her, and her clothes looked shabbier. She
came with a halting, undecided gait, that
Bible hidden under her thin shawl and
pressed to her bosom. She passed the place
twice before die finally entered, and then
with tears in her voice—and in her eyes, too,
by Jinkins!—she unwrapped the book and
asked me what I could let her have on it I
could see she was in great distress and utter
want, and I rightly judged that that Bible
was about the last thing she had to part with.
So I paid her just about what I could expect
to get for it myself, knowing all the
that she would never redeem it She parted
from me sadly and with downcast eyes, and
I felt I shouldn't see her again. I haven't.
A few months later I saw her name in the
papers. She had died in her little garret,
presumably of starvation. At her funeral
some people of means came to the surface.
It seems she had been well connected, and
had merely been prevented by pride and
false shame to claim assistance where it
ought to have come from."—New York Even
ing Sun,
The Street Car Conductor.
The man who has to stand twelve and four
teen hours a day on the platform of a street
ear doesn't look forward to the fall festivities
with any degree of pleasure. It is a popular
fallacy that big loads mean big pay for con
ductors, who are in some mysterious way
benefited by increased receipts. I have been
at the business now for over a dozen years, and
I confess to not being in the secret. When a
car has 40 per cent, more passengers on it
than it was constructed to carry, the labors
of its conductor are more than doubled, r.ad
he is condemned to ride in continuous tor
ture, have his feet smashed into jelly, and in
all probability lose a considerable percentage
of his meager earnings in making change
when so mobbed that he cannot get fair use
of his hands. I was on an English lino of
cars one whole year, and although the pay
wasn't enough to hold me, 1 couldn't help
admiring a simple police regulation prohibit
ing crowding. If a car was ever met by an
officer with one more passenger than its
licensed capacity on board, both driver and
conductor were arrested. There was never
any difficulty in keeping to the prescribed
number, because if an extra passenger got on
the horses would be at once stopped, and if
the intruder didn't get off again a committee
of passengers in a hurry to get through was
always organized to chuck him out.—Street
Car Conductor in Globe-Democrat.
A Queer Freak of Nature.
One of the queer freaks of nature is shown
by Mr. E. C. Bassett in the shape of a couple
of seeds, each about the size of a Rio coffee
bean, and exceedingly brown and hard. They
look as if naturally broken, in an irregular
way, or at least as if they were not whole.
They are called "the Mexican jumping bean,"
and if placed on a table or plate, or even the
human hand, they will turn over and jump
abeut. It is a kind of quivering motion, and
the "jump" is not great but it is enough to
turn them over, and sometimes to send them
a little way out of their places. They were
brought from Mexico to Florida, from which
region Mr. Bassett received them.—Hartford
Times.
New York's Gypsy Exhibition.
The latest invention to raise money for a
charity is now on exhibition in New York,
where anybody interested in gypsy girls,
with waving tresses, sparkling eyes and
peachy cheeks, dressed in all the colors of the
rainbow, and all the coins of all the realms,
can go to the Romany encampment, at One
Hundred and Seventy-third street and the
King's Bridge road. He will ibid there bright
colored tents, covered wagons, and kettles
sending out real steam as they simmer over
open fires and hang from tripods of oaken
sticks.—Boston Transcript
The English fashion of giving bride's and
bridegroom's names to the fullest in the pub
lished wedding notices would appear to be
fast gaining favor in this country.
13
W. J- Dyer
Packard^ Shoninger and
Boudoir.
Northern Pacific.
Going East. Accomodation, Arrives 5:50
Depart* 5:52 m.
Going West, Accomodation Arrives 9:43 a
Departs 0:50 a
Daily except Sunday.
On and after July 4th a passenger train will
run Daily between Wabpeton and St. Paul,
Leaving St Paul 8:00 nl
Minneapolis 8:85
Arriving at Wabpeton 8:20 a
Except Sunday when it will arrive at 11:30 a
leaving Wabpeton 7:30
Arriving at Minneapolis 7:15 a
at 8t Paul 7:50 am
PULLMAN SLEKFINQ CARS
are run without change on all trains irom St
Paul and Minneapolis and Fargo and Duluth.
for beauty and comfort these cars are unsur,
passed.
F.LEOANT HORTOtr CHAIR CAM.
on day trains between Fargo and Mandan. These
cars are fixed with new reclining chairs, and
oflfer speial attractions to the traveler.
SUPERB 1MNIHO CARS
without exception, the finest on the continent
are run on all trains. First-class meals.75c.
Persons wishing to purchase tickets East,
West, North or South, will find it to their advan
tage to get them via this line. O. A. HAWKE8,
•, •JV" •Y
Situated 216 miles from Minneapolis, at the present terminus of th
Agent
ARBUCKLES'
name on a paokage of COFFEE Is a
guarantee of exoellence.
ARIOSA
COFFEE is kept in all first-class
•tores from the Atlantic to the Paoifio.
COFFEE
is never good when exposed to the air.
Always buy this brand in hermetioally
sealed ONE POUND PACKAGES.
GO TO-
JOHNSON
FOR
WVfiL PjiPER,
PjUJTTS
and
DECORJtTIOJTS.
Opp. Bank of Wabpeton.
St. Paw and Minneapolis.
2 Larget Music Houses in the Northwes
Minneapolis and Pacific
Railroad and on the Breckenridge & Aberdeen Branch of the St. P., M.
& M., railroad, in the center of one of the
BEST FARMING DISTRICT
of the Red River Valley. It is but six months old and now has a popula
tion of 220 and is destined to be one of the
•EST TOWNS THE KD Ml HUBI
THE SURFACE
Of the surrounding country is
GENTLY ROLLING,
Dotted with innumerable lakes and streams fed by springs. The soil is a
Black Sandy Loam
About Two Feet Deep.
Property is rapidly enhancing in value. Business men will do well
to visit Lidgerwood before locating elsewhere: Lots sold way down to
actual builders. Gall on or address
G. I LIDGERWOOD,
SOLE AGENTS FOR-
EVERYTHING IN THE MUSIC LINE.
UDGERWOOD,
ST. I'AUL 148 and 150 E. Third St. MINNEAPOLIS—509 and 511 Syndicate Block, Nicollet Ave. $k!l
Lidgerwood, Dakota
R. N. INK,
Wahpeton, Dak.
T^HB superiority ofCorallne over born
I or whalebone bas now been dem
I onstrated by over six years exper
lence. It is mora durable, mors
pliable, mora comfortable, and NEVER
BREAKS.
The immense sale of these Corsets
now over 7000 dally.
Beware of worthless imitations boned
with various kinds of cord.
None are genuine unless "Dr. War1
iter's Corallne" is printed on insMteo:
the steel cover.
FOR SALE BT ALL LEADIHOKESOHABT8.
Steinway, Weber Qabler and|
BehrBros.
'MILWAUKEE
oulhh?JIl2iSK?toi W*
lowa
•V
B'500
miles ofthor-
VJ?.nESTdMinnesota,""no's.
M.road ln Wisconsin,
iowa, Missouri, and Dakota.
It is the Best Direct Bonte be
tween all principal points in the
Northwest, Southwest and Par West.
Por niRpa, time tables, rates of oassase anil
oftSe nhtVC»'1rnPP«JXit0 'S*
near®Bt
»&tlo/agent
or the Chicago, Milwaukee st. Paul RBIIW.T
or to any Railroad agent anywhere in the worlSl
R.MILLER, A. V. H. CARPENTER.
General Manager. Gen'l Pass and Tkt. Act.
J. F. TUCKER,
GEO.
„. HEAFFORD,
Ass Gen'l Mangr. Asst. Gen. Pass, Tkt.Agt
MILWUKEE, WISCONSIN.
Information in reference to lands and'
towns owned by tho Chicttso* IlilwikM
f!»•' *»"way Company.
3:45
4:80.
5:08,
5:S8
5:49
6:80
6:50,
7:10
8:00
wrtSWgf
M-
...Arr.
g!HAMAWsifc
Land Commissioner, Milwaukee, Wis.
Fargo Southern.
I*ave Ortonville. Arrive A. m. 1106
Gracevllle
MMM
Wheaton 1... .... OmX
Whiterock ut:jf
Seawall o'ns 5
.Wahpeton
Aliercrombie a-ai
Christene 7*48
P.M.Fargo
Lv
A.M 7J1
:00
The Peoples' Line.
FARGO & SODHIU
Between
Fargo and Ortonville.
Is prepared to handte both
FREIGHT
and
PASSENGER TRAFFIC
With Promptness and Safety.
Connecting at Ortonville with the Chicago, Mll
waukee st. Paul system, the Fargo
Southern thus makes another
E A N I N E
-u 1°
al.'
For fort her information address
A. V. H. CARPENTER,
Gen. Pass. Agent, Mllwukee, Wis
4 45
&
6 3.),
257 259 State 8tml
CHICAGO* ILL.
ekuMtuthalaSIa
fne sales of that etui of
remedies, tad has eim
glmosl tiolvctal MtttfK*
MURPHY BR09L
a. .F»ri»,Te*
Qhttmom th« fsvor of
th« public and now raaks
among the Itadiog Mali*
dam of the oildoa.
A. SMITH.
9
Eastern and Southern Kt»t»n
The Peoples Line is superb in all its aonoint
ments, steel rails, elegant coaches, and iterates
lines
8 uud t,me 48
Quick aa jther
THROUGH PASSENGER TRAINS
^wwn *argo and St. Pa*
without change, connecting at Union
depot, St. Paul, with ail eaat
and Southern lines.
When you GO EAST or COME WEST trr
Fargo & Seutliern.
Trains.leave Fargo for Minneapolis. St. Panl
and intermediate stations, at 7:80 a. Antn
MTm.from
st-
nI
an*
Ticket for fit fill prlncfD&l stations fnr cm
SerartX"8*CUcBg°and ""e,8tern
*ai
A
THE ST. PAUL,
MINNEAPOLIS &
RAILWAY
Beaches all principal points in
NORTIIEN AND CENTRAL
HNBTAJil DAKOTA.
the suoht l,ijte to
St. Cloud, Fergus Falls.
Moorhead, Fargo,
Grand Forks, Casselton,
Morris, Aberdeen
and Ellendale.
8LEEPING CAfc SERVICE UNSURPASSED.
DAY COACHES LKWT, CHEERY AND COM-
8OLID TRAIN8
To MINOT, DAK., and WINNIPEG, MANITOBA.
MANITOBA-PACIPIC ROUTE
eoixa
WEST
•TATIAWA.
a
7 80
8 05
700
785
12 lfi
11 85
a
1 05
2 18
floors CAa*
Lv... St.Paul....Ar
Minneapolis....
p.m.
700
880
7
4 00
16 "v
-Willmar.,
1 30
....Benson
4#",*\
Ar Morris.... Lv
4 50
5 00
838
1 IS
pm
10 50
10 40
9 10
1 30
80
Breckinridge.
...Wahpeton..
Ar. Barnesvllle...Lv
500
5 07
ft £2
6 00
6 18
6 43
700
7 11
7
7 40
7 55
S 45
35
Lv. Breckinridge..Ar
Wahpeton..
Dwight....
10 00
S3
9 08
8 28
Collax
Wnlcoti..
Kindred....
Davenport,.
8 16
745
788
7 22
7 10
6 56
10
IS 80
Addison....
Dnrbln....
Everest ...
Ar... Casselton..
.Lv
8 55
8 55
4 18
4
4 87
4 58
5 10
5 SO
5 84
5 46
6 00
6 09
....Wabpeton
•Tintah Junction..
Trent
a
11 80
11 10|
10 58
10 45
10 80
10
10 08
p.m.
Berlin
.... Sonora
... Hankinson...
8tiies
...Lidgerwood
Geneseo
Seneca
.... Rutland
.^Prague Lake....
Webber
6 26
6 44
7 02
7 81
7 40
7 SOj
8 151
8 40
010I
... Amherst
Clalrmout
...Hufflon
-...Putney.
.. .Hadley
.Aberdeen.. Lv
Ar,
r"
50
88
085
9 10
Kidddr
Borch
818
840
8
808
7 46
7 N
710
4k
111
IS
For full particulars apnly to .• "f
r'H'urJoro,Loe*,AAWelipetee- 'V
i.feS8S8SSE&,%W