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MIDDLETOWN. DELAWARE. SATURDAY. APRIL 15, 1899.
VOL. XXXII—NO 15
PRICE TEREE CENTS
ptoSSTirftT bÏo
that S what you are < ►
heref* biïyouthmkrt < >
^ possible to buy a *50.00 < ►
Prie* *18.76. Hogue No. 5g 7 tèiisaii ' •
' ■ about Bicycles, Sewing < ►
Î J Machines, Organ, and Pianos. . J |
» .uit^of Clothing, 1 made^to-your' ' ;
j I measure, guaranteed to fit and ÖT ,,
i1 > f^j^o^^miogue No "57 ! I
J ! shows 31 samples of clothing /M 'ÿ' J
'} ' ih^, h °Hats m anl Fumishfngs"
•J I Lithographed Catalogue No. Ï
i « ti 7 eres°Md Ca Lac?'Curuinsf°in A. l\ *
j I hand-painted colors, We pay lyVj \ Y
* ' fiurnisii lining without charge. S\ j t
what do you 11 B Ï
' hi .? k ' f ? /J fli %
Dry-air Fam A
ily Réfrigéra- c.
X?i»but one of over 8000 bar- X
rnnoussiii gains contained in our Gen- X
j ' lWM J and Household Goods. rmtUr 'X
A We save you from 40 to 60 5,
y ofus? Which catalogue do i,
L,^u. you want? Address this way, X
flULIUS HINES « SON, Baltimore, M. Dept. 909.J
—- — - == • - ——-
I j Paying Double Prices
\\M
I:
■ »,
;
V
ardanier Stands.
Jl
H all Stands, Hanging Hat
• Racks.
E asles in Bamboo, Oak and
White.
irrors for Mantels and
Parlors.
E bony and Oak Book
Racks.
R ugs in all sizes of Smyr
and goat skin.
S tands—Card, Umbrella
Parlor.
O ttomans and small articles
for ornamentation.
e\v Novelties in Furniture.
M
na
and
Window Shades. Carpets by I
I 1 \
sampie. |
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The above articles, the follow
ing and many more at
J. H. EMERSON'S,
Middletown,
Delaware
Mrs. THOMAS MASSEY,
DEALER
IN
Watches,
Clocks,
Jewelry,
and
Silverware. ; >
ALSO A LARGE STOCK OF
Cut Glass,
AND VARIOUS ARTICLES IN GOLD AND
SILVER FOR WEDDING AND
BIRTHDAY GIFTS
Repairing and Silversmithing a
Specialty.
8
Mrs. Thomas Massey,
Main Street, Middletown, Del.
LARGEST STOCK!
LOWEST PRICES!
A FULL LINE OF
Hardware and Tools
Cook Stoves and Ranges,
Heaters,
Oil and Gasoline Stoves,
Tinware, Agateware,
Woodenware and
House Furnishing Goods
Galvanized Roofing,
Barb Wire and
Cucumber Wood Pumps,
Ready-Mixed Paints
AND ALL KINDS OF PAINTING ÎIA
. . .TERIAL . . .
<^Do not forget it ! We allow a I
TEN PER CENT. DISCO UNI for I tbe
SPOT pieu „h „ T
STOVES Z RANGES
3
av
of
the
to
Opera House Building
MIDDLETOWN, DEL.
CARTMELL'S
__I
VINEGAR OF TA R ,
who
mad
CURES
COUGHS AND COLDS.
Full £-pint Bottle, 25 Cents.
S00 testimonials from users in Wilmington
Del. Sold By All DRUG AND GENERAL
STORES
BBS
mm
Best Cough
Tastes Good. Use
■in time. Sold bv dl
asXZBSZE
EH
Bed lips that dumbly quiver for his kiss 1
And now but fondly touch his graveyard
bÏo Ah, lips hîioved of old, remember thta,
are < ► He had not died if he had only known I
< > —Arthur J. Stringer in Harper's Magazine.
< ► -
' • A STROKE OF GENIUS.
< ► -
J | ** Elicited the Unbounded Admira
' ; " on of tl,e Farmer -
,, Only a few summers ago, among the
! I many others that visited the wild re
gion adorned by one of Michigan's in
ßkes, was an artist. He had a
Ï wealth of scenery from which to select
* aDd chose a picturesque view with a
\ Y hill of rocks and jack pines as a back-1
t ^ound. The owner of tho property
Ï transferred to canvas did not think
% much of the enterprise or of the man
A who would dawdle away his time in
c. such an undertaking, but the artist
X paid the summer rates without a mur
X mur and never entered any complaints
'X against the accommodation! The next
60 5, season the painter was again among the
quests.
do i, "How did that there picter of yours to
X come out. anyhow?" asked the curious
909.J , landlord. |
1 "Oh, fairly welL You know that 11
have my name to make yet I sold it
' for *1,000. '•
"No, " exclaimed the farmer excited
ly. "not $1,000. You're chaffin me. "
"Not a bit of it" laughed the artist,
"I got $1,000 for that little view before
there was a frame on it. "
"Shake, stranger I alius thought I
was purty slick on a dicker, but I'll be
doggone if yon don't take the prize, on
You skinned that feller slick and
clean. " I one
"How so?" indignantly, for his pride
was touched. I
"Oh, don't play innercent with ma
It won't go no further But yon done]
him brown. A thousand fur that spot
where you couldn't raise a bean to the I had
acre! If the critter that bought that I
picter had seen me, I'd a sold him the
hnll dura farm for $275."—Detroit j ing
Free Press. I
in
he
kept
the
then
REMORSE.
■
and
and
na
In the Tap Root of an Oak.
I remember a curious incident con
nected with the tap root of an oak.
This oak, a good tree of perhaps 200
years' growth, was being felled at
Bradenham wood when the woodmen
called attention to something peculiar
by I on the tap root On clearing this of soil
1 \ we found that the object was a horse
| g h oe of ancient make. Obviously in
the beginning an acorn must have fall
en into the hollow of this cast shoe, and
as it grew through the slow genera
tions the root filled np the circle, car
rying it down into the earth in the
process of its increase till at length we
found wood and iron thus strangely
wedded. That tap root with the shoe
about it is now or nsed to be a paper
weight in the vestibule of Bradenham
HalL—Rider Haggard in Longman's
Magazine.
class
the
a
am
the
then
Pare Water a Poison.
By "chemically pure water" we I spec
usually understand perfectly fresh, dis- 1
tilled water. Distilled water is a danger-1 pause
ous protoplasmic poison. The same I little
poisonous effects must occur whenever I
distilled water is drunk. The sense of I than
taste is the first to protest against the I
use of this substance. A mouthful of I but
distilled water, taken by inadvertence, I an
will be spit out regularly. The local I from
poisonous effect of distilled water makes I to
itself known by all the symptoms of a I
catarrh of the stomach on a small scala I
The harmfnlness of the process, so mach
resorted to today, of washing out the
stomach with distilled water is
knowledged.—National Druggist
a
boyish
„„„
age
Officiai Lamppo.ts. I ^ le
The placing of lampposts in front of ,
are
ac
the houses of the chief magistrates of
towns is an ancient custom. We find in
Heywood's "English Traveler'' that
posts were so placed in front of sheriffs'
houses. Reginald says
What brave carved postal Who knows bnt here
In time, sir, you may keep your shrievaltie
And 1 be one o' th 1 servants?
From sheriffs, the practice extended
to the houses of mayors and provosts. I says
It has been suggested, with some prob- I ever
ability, that the posts were at first in- I corner
tended for the affixing of proclamations I scuffle
which it was the duty of the sheriffs to I
them,
A Forgetful Spon.e. I 8Dd
vr-- d;h^„ , , . I course,
Mra Bilkins—I never saw such a for
do^kh^stonnTd Hfe - " y ° U ^ The
Mr p--n--? Pe ^ 3g3ln i , I '
t to wind t Th3t 8 beCanSe yon for ' Mr -
8 v . „ Pr.
Mr ^ ery W ? U ' sicu
. . to d yon to remind I found
"yrÄ Ä 0 " S ab0nt 11 vice
y ■ whether
do
the
will
gets
publish.
I a German bridal couple bearing
I tbe 8ame naine And the groom replied :i
"Nein. Das is vat's de matter. Ve
\V^J° <**
could
ment's
Green
Her Mi.take.
"How did it happen that Miss Single
ton refused to marry the young clergy
man ?"
"Why, when he proposed to her she,
being a little deaf, thought he was ask
ing her to subscribe to the organ fund. I Hy
So she told him she had promised her I w as
money to some other mission. "— Har- I figures
so
can't
idea.
per 's Bazar.
Proud of HU Descent.
O'Brien—And so Phelim is prond av
his descint, is he?
not
McTnrk—Yes, he is terribly stuck up | graph
3 ^lVn*- vo ,1 I
O Bnen—Well, begorra, Oi've a bit
av a descint rneself to boast about Oi The
descinded four stones wanst whin the four
ladder broke and mver shpilled a brick, mg
—Answers _ | from
of
The
of .St.
i I London,
,
"Are you related to each other?" in- I m !! es
quired the probate judge at Oklahoma ml ' es
perpetual
Not Yet.
Over 2,000,000 bottles, of the value
of $35,000, are recovered each year from
the dustyards in London and returned kia ,
to their owners. 01 sil
A
"There's something wrong with this bill,'I
, l he yoUDg married raan tothe "HH 11 « 1
who has imported Parsian prices as well as
"Tt t. L I New
co rcct in every item, after look-j pletely
mg-ft over. f or
,b„s mr ' bM -- b,!!tr ^ o :
f i -i *.p « .b...
All right, madam, I'll settle; but it's thing
robbery. We had our first anniversary 1 feel
yesterday and I bought a ten-pound turkev
u- * r Sasr
m, 7T*~ ~ Price
mad at hü wifefora^ toTngÄm^forV 8 ^df^"'
styles.
A "licensed pawnbroker *' who does a
1 great deal of work Id the west end of
graveyard London lately gave to the writer par
tjculars of a strange sort of pledging
that has become common of late and
that often defeats men of his kind.
Backing np his statement with actual
names and dates, he said:
"A bailiff and I enter a showy flat,
Admira- say, and my accustomed eye at once
falls on a handsome or at least a pre
the tentions piano. I say to myself that
re- this piano will sell for what I require.
in- I go to it, but find that it is locked.- I
had a ask for the key, and when this is relnc
select tautly produced I find that there is in
a reality nothing hut a case. All the in
back-1 side of the instrument is gone. The fact
property is that people in difficulties who still
think want to keep np appearances can bor
man row money, while still apparently re
in taining their piano, by allowing the
artist lenders to take away the main part, or
mur- inside, of the instrument. One man in
the west end in particular does a con
next siderable business by lending money on
the pianos in this wav.
"I suppose that when visitors want
yours to play on an instrument of this kind
curious the host pleads that the key is lost,
| Anyhow I have in my own business had
that 11 quite 50 examples of gutted pianos dur- I
it ing the last two years, and I never
mark a Diano down in an inventory
excited- now till I have closely examined it."—
" London Answers. I
artist, -
before a Neighing cock.
Camden says the Thames was once P
I called the Cockney, and therefore a
be cockney means simply one who lives
prize, on the banks of the Thames. Wedge
and wood says a cockney, or cockerney, is
I one pampered by city indulgence, in
pride contradistinction to rustics hardened by
I outdoor work. There is, however, a j fl
ma legend, almost too good to be true—
done] namely, that a Londoner who had never
spot before slept out of sound of Bow Bells
the I had occasion to go into the country and
that I was detained all night
the He was much disturbed by the low
j ing of the cattle, the grunting of the
I pigs and other sounds of country life, .
which he could not understand, and in I
particular be was frightened by the I
crowing of the cock. In the morning,
in response to the farmer's inquiries,
he said the sound of the wild bea. ts had I
kept him awake. Just at that moment I I
the cock crowed again, and the Lon
doner said: "That's the one! He's been |
then Londoners have been called cock- I
neighs, or cockneys.
Keeping: Ip Appearances.
■
in
On
ed
ey
lot
ing
a
con
oak.
200
at
soil
horse
in
fall
and
car
the
we
shoe
neighing like that for hours!" Since
Learning the Troth.
A school inspector was examining a
class in grammar and trying to explain
the relations of adjectives and nouns by
a telling example.
"Now, for instance." said he, "what
am I?"
That was an easy question, and all
the children shouted. "A manl"and
then looked around triumphantly, as
much as to say, "Ask another."
"Yes. But what else?" said the in
we I spec tor.
dis- 1 This was not so ca
pause a hoy ventured to suggest, "A
I little man. "
I "Yes, but there is something more
of I than that. "
the I This was a poser for the youngsters,
of I but after a moment's puzzled silence
I an infant phenomenon almost leaped
I from his seat in his eagerness and cried
I to the inspector :
a I "Please, sir, I know—an ugly little
I man!"
the
but after a
he
I
the
said,
have
Drnininor.d Was on Top.
Professor Henry Drummond had a
boyish spirit when a man, and at the i
„„„ oe ; i j * I
age of 20 invented a game for some a
I ^ le " da at a ^°" try kouse ° ne ralny to
of , " aad .' , i . hey p J, ay 11 ln the
f" T men
are locked in a dark room, each in a I
~~ - »• ™ « I
was
name
Royal
one
pot
ac
of
in
I says it was the most exciting one he
I ever played. "Nobody stirred from his
I corner for 20 minutes. Then I heard a
I scuffle between two of the others, felt
to I wa y to fling myself on both of
them, when Drummond pounced on me,
I 8Dd in , 3 he3P ' be - ° f .
I course, on top, as he always was. I
__L_ A
Tlie KnR, '" h For Cnnal,,c - heard
I ' Dnrin S tke Tichborne trial, where to
' Mr - Justice Hawkins was opposed by not
Pr. Kenealy, in the course of a discus
' sicu whether equivalent terms could be ble
I found in English for French words, and I
vice versa ' Mr ' Hawkina waa asked he
■ whether he thought the word canaille | his
"I
do without the kDives; the door and
the shutters shall be shut, each of us
will stand in a corner, and the first who
gets on another man's back will be the
winner."
Dr. Smith was in the game, and he
A
lection
into
of
their
rope.
of
of
not
:i
could be adequately rendered in our
language. He answered without a mo
ment's hesitation, 'Yes, 'Kenealy.'"—
Green Bag.
I Hy group, now, that illustrates what I
I w as talking about a moment ago. The
I figures are correctly enough drawn, bnt
so utterly stiff and unnatural that I
can't imagine where the artist got his
idea.
Inferiority of Notare.
Visitor (at art store)—Here is a fam
Dealer—My dear yonng lady, that is
not a painting. It is a colored photo
| graph from life.—Chicago Tribnne.
I I
Japan», Area.
The empire of Japan is composed of cnits
four large and 3,000 small islands, form
mg an arc of a large circle extending to eat
| from the northeast within a few miles y 0 u
of Kamchatka, southwest about 2,000
The Britishcoott 1, celled the court j im.l
of .St. James because St. James palace.
i I London, is its official headquarters. | can
the
,
I m !! es ' ? nd ' Formosa nearly 3,000 want
ml ' es ^ rom an crctlc climate, to one of in the
perpetual spring and everlasting sum
mer.—Keystone.
kia , owl1 weight, a cow nine times, an
01 sil times and a sheep six times.
A horse will eat in a year nine times
Men
ipiration
A Thousand Tongues .
not el P ress the «Pt™ of Annie that
^1125 g—rt st, »flggU
I New Discovery for Consumption had com. folIo
pletely cured her of a hacking cough that
f or many years bad made life a burden. ~ „
^ o : h o' r b7Äi r ä a«:?
rz ssÄfsjx.ts
thing I can scarcely remember doing before. > ® y
1 feel like sounding its praises throughout
^ wi JL l - €Very oa . e who ! clin)
Sasr- ä {.ä "f
Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottles free at
^df^"' 8 Pharmacy : ewy boltle 8 Mran ' I **
up.
Superstition and Ifs Effects.
does a ^ wish that some one would write an
end of adequate book upon superstition and
par- its effects, as distinguished from and op
pledging Posed to revealed religion and its
and effects. This enrse of the world, civi
lized or savage, deserves a worthy chron
actual ic,er - Walking round the exhibits in
the Agricultural hall, it was borne in to
flat, my mind tl#at superstition in all its
once hideous phases is perhaps the most con
a pre- Crete and tangible form in which the
that evil one manifests himself upon earth,
require. and 1 think that those who have mixed
I much with native races will not dis
relnc- a S rea with me.
is in Here is an instance of its working
the in- which has just come to my notice: Not
fact long ago two Matabeles were tried at
still Bulawayo for the murder of their grand
bor- eon, a child of 2. Poison having failed,
re- the boy was held beneath the water and
the drowned. The crime was admitted, but
or the defense raised was that the child
man in had cut its top teeth first. Such chil
con- dren being unlucky and the cause of ill
on luck to others, it was customary to kill
them, and a "witch doctor," on being
want consulted, had ordered that this one
kind should be put to death! Well, only a
lost, century or so since we did things al
had most as bad in England.-Eider Hag- |
dur- I 8 ard in Longman's.
never
An Added Burden.
it."— 1 was takiu S dinner ° ne day at a
I mountain farmhouse on the headwaters I
of the Cumberland river, and the lady
of the house, who had four children
once P la y> n g around the front of the estab
a Moment, was inclined to repine at her
lives kard lnL 'k in having so much work to do.
Wedge- "I ™ this here whole farm," she
is sa * d kn a tone which indicated that she
in was ready to resign.
by "How many acres have you?" I in
a j fl n ' re d
true— "A hundred and forty—20 in wheat,
never 60 * n corn . 1° in medder an paster, an
Bells the balance scatterin an woods."
and "Got any stock?"
"Ten head nv cattle, two cows, six
low- bogs an work critters fer the place."
the "And you run the whole business?"
life, . "Indeed I do—every hide an hair nv
in I s be sighed,
the I "Don't yon hire some help?"
"In course, but 'tain't hired help
that takes the load of^ 'en a body. " There
had I was philosophy in that statement, and
I I P a n se d a minute,
Lon
been | askc d with a good deal of sympathy.
'Yes," she responded very slowly,
cock- I "but I have to run him too."—Wash
to
Sagar, the verger of Halifax parish I
church, was quite a character in his
way. He figured in several good stories |
in Dean Pigou's "Phase of My Life. " j
On one occasion a bridegroom discover- I
ed after the service that he had no mon- I
ey with which to pay the fees.
Sagar went to the bride in his most |
winsome way and asked her: "Hast
ever seen Black Bibles? We've a rare I
lot on'em in this'ere vestry. "
"No," sbe replied, not having the I his
faintest idea of what a Black Bible was. |
"Coom along. I'll show yer them."
He lured her into the inner vestry.
"There's tho Bibles," he said, point
ing to them, locked up as they were in
a bookcase with glass panels, of which I
"Haven't yon got a husband?" I next
Since
ington Star.
He Got the Fees.
a
by
"what
all
as
in
"A
more
cried
little
a
i
he had not the key. "Wait awhile till I
I comeback." I
He turned the key of the vestry on
the bride and, going to the bridegroom
said, "Lass is all right, bnt you'll no
have her till you have paid. "
The "brass" was immediately forth
coming.
we
no
a
the i __ , . ...
I An Englishman who is an enthusi
some a stic Alpine clubbist came in one night
to carry a friend off to a lecture which
ln the veteran mountaineer Whymper was
men giving at Westminster on his peHheme
a I rm. . _ , f, , '
I
was otherwise engaged, but Whymper's
name reminded him of a story of Sir
James LintoD, the late president of the
Royal Institution of Painters In Water
Colors. He had to introduce the well
known artist E. M. Wimperis to the
Alpinist, and he did it in the following
fashion: "I want to make two distin
guished men known to each other. The
one is Mr. Whymper, tho other Mr.
Wimperis." For an impromptu this is
pot bad.
A Happy Introduction.
he
his
a
felt
of
me,
° f . . „ , . „
I A Haughty Reply.
A «tnrv Wiiu.,,,, T ,
heard somewhere many years agonit 'is
to be feared, is not authentic, as I can- I win
by not find it in Lord Stanhope's or Lord umvei
Rosebery's book. It represented a no- ed
be ble mediocrity as assuring the great
I statesman with some condescension that
he might fairly expect an earldom for I wings
| his magnificent services.
"I an earl I" was the haughty reply.
"I make dukes." — Macmillan's.
for
lows
der
the
over
and
us
who
the
put
well
tien
elder
or
York
he
times
makes
times
bee
The Capital of Holland. i n g
A gentleman—to the best of onrrecol- | 330
lection a retired linen draper—-went
into school one day with the intention I The
of putting the fifth standard through It
their facings in the geography of Eu- I hotel
rope. He began, "What is the capital gate
of 'Olland?" "Capital H," was the the
crushing rejoinder from the smart boy in
of the class. The ex-linen draper did
not pursue his geographical inquiries and
further.—Cornhill. I hours,
posing
round
cure
our
I
I
is
I A Dead, Y Weapon.
Bronxborough-Where are those bis
of cnits yon made for supper ?
Mrs. Bronxborough- Von don't want
to eat biscuits at this time of night do
y 0 u ?
ways
right
ü,- r i , h *
j im.l comumptim" b,L""ot fer fttüi
450,000,000 pounds, for which Ameri
| can importers pay about $90,000,000 to
the growers. |
»logist.
fie is
Bronxborcugb — Of course not I I
want to throw them at those cats out
of in the back yard.—New York JonraaL
Men have been known to lose by per
ipiration 5,000 to 6,000 grains an hour*
. Fatber-"So yon have gambled away I "No,"
that last *1,0001 advanced?" Heve
Son-"Yes, sir. I cannot tell a lie. I The
folIo "ed your lead on wheat-" either
--- who
~ „ , . . , „ enough
51.""''"«r
"rr.ü-.b';: rï r 1
> ® y notin 8 th ;13 small placard. Paint,
! clin) ter-"Did you know that your wife
"f r ziz t;*""
Blinker-"I didn't know anything about
' I ** model p8rt ' bnt 1 know ahe holds
"Yep;
The
ways
doesn't*"
me
up.
;
an ;
and
op
its
civi
in
to
its
con
the
dis
Not
at
"The imr l-ment wns then f ..,lioA tho
.t, nln i, i,.ii ill T
and ,. T] '* ! ,° ......
but °, ntUlzl ? g , lt
' ' 1 wnen and why
(Jo m ' t " 1 ■• lH given the article
ill . ,,,-, , . „
kill t j, j, n hie« were niniYnf "nithcr *n 8
' , '' , fcr lron
one ^ w hich "re pr^erveT a^heï
a . * , \ , f s ,? ir
al- ^ ' », h r. 5 ' ?
| JÄuT« r 1 til
w»« nmnv tim«.««! h gh their cost
"Todav m id irnn
dorlay gold, silver, iron, ivory,
a ^ nUlir"!! f™" Ç*-" 1
I a , d *° ld de ° tz ® d in making
f 'J 1 ! * , 1 " < ; e ald nee dlework became
astn onable thimbles of elaborate work
!V ana . if , gre " t 7 alne - to accompany
her .f. r , H an( co.-, ly implements and
, a t wt , a 1 f needleworkers affect
she 'If??.»
in
an
HIS FIRST THIMBLE.
Inventor John Lofting Mn<le a For
tune From It 200 Years Ago.
"There is a rich family named Loft
ing in England, " said a dealer in fancy
articles, "the fortune of whose house
was founded by so apparently insignifi
cant a little thing as the thimble.
"The first thimbles seen in England
were made in London less than 200
years ago by a metal worker named
Johu Lofting.
"The usefulness of the article recom
mended it at once to all who used the
needle, and Lofting acquired a large
fortune end great fame in the manufac
ture of the new accessory to the needle
worker's art
of
of
of
are
to
or
ma
s. carved and fre
iauionds. have been
quently set u .lb
found none too good for somo people.
Thimbles made to order with the mono
gram or initials of the ;
they are intended set in
are not b;
'•n for whom
.-regions stones,
unknown. "—
leans
'j
Philadelphia Pre
ing
that
dom
ish;
ed.
And
cept
the
ity
let
1-7;
Luke
vu,
is
HE ATE THE SOAP.
Garland V.'onlil Have Smillowed It
It Had Kllird Him.
H
The late Augustus Fi Garland, who
was attorney general under President
Cleveland, was very fond of practir:
jokes and during his term of service in
the senate frequently turned the laugh
on his colleagues. St
and Vest, with whom he was very
friendly, finally determined to turn the
tables. Mr. Garland had a habit, like
Voorhees, of munching candy, and Vest
and Voorhees made it up between them
to take advantage of his fondness for
I sweets to play their trick. They had
some tempting looking chocolate cara
| mels prepared, with the interior filled
j with brown soap Those they took to
I the senate chamber and Voorhees placed
I them on his desk. The lid being off
when Mr Garland sauntered down the
| aisle he noticed them at
"What have you there. Dan?" he in
I quired. .
Voorhees looked up carelessly from
I his writing aud responded "Caramels
| Help yourself
I conflict
ü
ors Voorhees
ouce
tory
Jesus
in
No
this
that
the
"To
Some
will
every
port
Garland in-eded no second invitation
and, picking up tv.-<
one in his nn<! h S
t tli lee. placed
ililv b
:bewed
away, his face betrayi
within him
ru of the
I hi
i alarmed
I Voorhees. who went to Vest's desk and
I said
"He's eating th
we do? The stuff i
Senator Vest re;;
no more than ma!;
swallowed »1
foaming al t:
suds
with
have
—New \
Vest' What shall
11 bill him sure!"
d 11;:.t it could do
I eick Garland
■a"'. 'Ugh he was
h h the soap
; U nt afterward
el s,iid he would
»! i billed him
ll^i,
:r« at
i: if
bin
Stvi
k liy.
Stvi
I win <?
umvei
ed u ' !l
vibrations
produce
I wings
k liy.
What is s:;:d
for strength i:.n ;
lows 1 . ini to;
der and a pin
the powei. r in
over it 8li: until
!Ut ton i:
•nt lotion
is as fol
y
i;
oracic pow
Put
if
g water
pour the water
ved. then
and keep
Whin re
water to an
nit the addi
ng .if laurel or
an l bathe the eyes
g a soft rag
<■ fur tin- purpose.—New
put the
well cor
quired add :
eggcnpfnl v.
tien of i wo
elder flow:
frequently v
or fine sjon,
York Trili :.-!
I-I
.1
ri: :■!
v.
I
it - -
l!!i this, u:
Inspcl N.ilrs.
The slow fi.lj.pill:;
prod ce
of a butterfly's
no sound When the
•id a noise is produc
ivases \.i:h the uniuber of
i'ins the house fiy. which
of F. vibrates its
l.BM times a minute or 335
times a second. Mnd the bee. which
makes a sound of A. as many as 26,400
times or 440 times a second. A tired
bee hums on E. and. therefore, aocord
i n g theory vibrates its wings only
| 330 times a second,
I The Whale Core For Rbenmatlsm.
It is said that in Australia there is a
I hotel where rhenmatic patients congre
gate Whenever a whale has been taken
the patients are rowed over to the works
in which the animal is cut np. the
whalers dig a narrow grave in the body,
and in this the patient lies for two
hours, as in a Turkish bath, the decom
posing blubber of the whale closing
round his body and acting as a huge
poultice This is known as the whale
cure for rheumatism.
ft
.* rn.;
MYi
A Bill *, Berry.
Crimsonbeak—Onr government al
ways seems to do the right thing at tbe
right time.
Yeast—What has it done now ?
* onirers statesman.
~ Righted.
Fuzzy—I hear your minister is a my
»logist.
Wuzzy—Well, yon have heard wrong,
fie is a Calvinist. —New York Tribune
mar
"No," said the statesman. "I don't ber
Heve in legislating on the drink queation
The time is coming when we will .11 be
either employers or employes, and the
who drinks oan't keep his wits about him
enough to be an employer and the
j?» w "' 1 b,m ***>
" e
man
non
"Flatterly's as broad as he is long.'
"Yep; Flatterly'a a square man,"
The Difference—"They say a man is al
ways nervous when he proposes .''
doesn't*" 8trl * lway8 W» when he
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR;
Topic For the Week Beginning April
16—Comment by Rev. S. H. Doyle.
Topic.—T he eternal morning and modern
missions.—Isa. lx, 1-12.
This chapter is a song of triumph
upon glorified Zion. It is a magnificent
picture of the church in its glory and
beauty after the light of God has shone
upon it, and may be looked upon as a
picture of the ideal Zion after the re
turn from captivity or a picture of the
New Jerusalem or heaven. Three char
acteristics of this eternal morning are
prominent—darkness, moral and spirit
ual, in the church is to disappear;
many of the nations of the world are to
be gathered into heaven ; the nations
that will not serve God are to be de
stroyed.
The bearing of this passage upon the
subject of modern missions is clearly
evident.
1. In the light of the eternal morn
ing modern missions are seen to pay.
Modern missions have two specific pur
poses, (1) to dispel the. spiritual dark
ness of the world and replace it with
the light of God, and (2) to lead the
gentile nations to God through Christ
and to eternal salvation. The picture
of the prophet in its application to
eternity proves that both these results
are to be accomplished. The darkness
of the church is to be dispelled and the
light of God is to shine upon it. The
nations of the world are to flock to the
church of God and are to bring their
wealth and consecrate it to God. These
facts prove to us that mission work is
successful; that it does pay. Theory
that missions are a failure should be
forever silenced by this picture of eter
nity as given to the prophet by God
Himself. It gives us a view of the result
of missionary efforts, and it is one that
should encourage and inspire all who
are interested in this great cause of God
to increased zeal and earnestness in the
cause.
«
2. In the light of the eternal morn
ing we see the necessity of modern mis
sions. "Darkness shall cover the earth"
except where the church exists. How
important therefore that the church of in
Christ should extend over the whole
world, that this glorious light of God
may be worldwide. Again it is said
that at that time the nation and king
dom that will not serve God shall per
ish; those nations shall be utterly wast
ed. But how can the heathen nations
serve God unless they first know God ?
And how can they ever know God ex- 1
cept the church of Christ sends them I her
the knowledgecf God? The responsibil-1
ity for the salvation of the world is I
upon us. How will we meet it? De- I
pending upon God for strength and en- 1
couraged by the assurance of Success, I
let us rise to the full measure of our I a
responsibility. I
Bible Readings.—Isa. xlix, 20-23; lii, I of
1-7; Nah. i, 15; Math, xxviii, 19, 20 ; I
Luke xv, 1-10; Acts i, 1-8; xiii, 1-8, I
44-49; xvi, 8-10; Rom. x, 14, 15; Rev. I
vu, 9, 10; xxi, 22-24. | and
the
The pledge that is generally used by I
Endeavorers throughout Great Britain I
is the original one, with the introduc-1
The Pledge In England.
tory sentence, "Relying on the Lordl
Jesus Christ for salvation, and trusting I
in God for strength, I promise Him." I
No one seems to know who composed I
this introduction. The theologians think I
that there is a confusion of persons in I
the Godhead in the phrase. They ask,
"To wham does the 'Him' refer ?"
Some societies, especially the Irish I
Methodist, have adopted the American I
revised pledge. It was agreed by the I
British National council, at its recent I
session, to adopt, after the phrase, "I I
will pray to Him and read the Bible!
every day, " the words, "that I will sup-1
port my own church and its services in I
every way in my power." This is to be I
the form suggested for ordinary use. |
. ,
In view of the prevailing and abid
ing love of Him in whose hands all I of
power in heaven and on earth is lodged I
what a folly seams our unbelief and I
what a sin and shame onr worry! We I
have bnt the duty of the present. The I
provision for the morrow is our Father's I
oare, and because He cares and wills I
that we should have the help that never
failsHis trusting children in their hour to
of need we can put our whole strength
into the moment s work, assured that der
the morrow's task will never be allowed on
to pass beyond the morrow 's strength,
—Oongregationalist.
his
,
The rose, among the sweetest and I he
most beautiful of God's creations, is I a
armed with thorns, nature's sharp bay
onets for warding off attack. Purity is
the defence of beauty: modesty is the men
safeguard *f innocence. The severe ing
chastity whmh repels familiarity is as tian
absolutely essential for the safety cf the
soul as genial attractiveness is for its I to
beauty.—A. J. Gordon. 1 the
Faith In God.
Parity Is Power.
The Life Within.
All as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told!
Enough that blessings undeserved
Have marked my erring track;
That whereso'er my feet have swerved
Hi8 chastening turned me back.
That more and more a Providence
Of love is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good.
That death seems but a covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Father's sight.
That oare and trial seem at last,
Through memory's sunset air,
Like mountain ranges overpast,
In purple distance fair.
That all the jarring notes of life
Seem blending in a psalm
And all the angles of its strife
Slow rounding into calm.
Ship.
to
cial
some
do
means
a
sum
raise
tieth
schools
sions
every
sions
He
with
more
had
And so the shadows fall apart,
And so the west winds play,
hnd all the windows of my heart
I open to the day.
—John G. Whittier.
How It Hnrtst I
Rheumatism, with its sharp twinges, A
aches and pains. Do you know the cause? Oliver
Acid in the blood has accumulated in your narrated
joints. The cure is found in Hood's Sarsa- most
parilla which neutralizes this acid. Thou- most
sands write that they have been completely pain
cured of rheumatism by Hood's Sarsa.
paril * a - d »y
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick headache
biliousness, indigestion. Price 25 cents.
' How does Blankly get along? He says I weeks,
that he's too proud to beg and too honest to
PHe gets trusted."
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EPWORTH LEAGUE.
April Topic For the Week Beginning April
modern
triumph
and
shone
as a
re
the
char
are
spirit
to
nations
de
the
clearly
morn
pay.
pur
dark
with
the
Christ
to
the
The
the
their
These
is
be
eter
God
that
who
God
the
10, "The Eternal Morning and Mod
ern Missions"— 1 Text, Iso. lx, 1-12.
"Arise, shine ; for thy light is come
and tho glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee I"
Other ages have seen marvelous re
ligious revivals and reformations, but
no age has seen such vast changes
wrought by a single religious system in
such widely separated parts of the
world and over such multitudes as has
been effected by Christianity during
this present century. Not to speak of
the Old Testament revivals, which were
national, the most strikingly aggressive
religions have been Buddhism and Mo
hammedanism. The first may be called
the Protestantism of the orient, as it
was a reformation of Brahmanism and
the previous heathen systems of the
east, which had grown corrupt. Moham
medanism was a reform movement of
vast importance and a wondrous ad
vance upon the old material religions
which it supplanted. At one time it |
neither of these systems has lifted any I
nation into advanced civilization and I
neither fulfills the requirement of a
universal religion for all men.
« T h lo Ce ° f Chn8tl T ty £o i_ the
SÜnîïtEï* T TT 8 -
seaf ^ D 03,110 •
seat of power in the Roman empire.
Its conquest of the barbarians who over- I
turned the empire is one of the marvels j
of history. Most fascinating is the story
of the conversion of the northern na
tions of Europe and the subsequent de- ?
velopment of the Greek, the Roman and I
the Protestant churches. . „
The deepest interest, however, centers I K
around the work of the church during
the present century. This is the era of I
missionary societies, Bible and tract I 1
societies. Since this century began I
more Bibles have been made and dis- 1
threatened to overran all Europe and
divide the world with Buddhism. But
mis- tribnted than in all previous ages.
To see clearly the advance of the gos-1
How pel one should take the map as it was I f°
of in 1800 and compare it with the world I
now. All the Pacific islands, Japan, I at
God Korea, China, India, Africa, South I
said America, Mexico and the Indians of I
America have been reached with the |
per- Bible and pure religion, and whole na
tions lifted from vilest barbarism and i
heathenism into peaceful, progressive
? civilization and religions purity
ex- 1 Surely the light has come. Earth sees "
I her Redeemer as never before. | "
I $
is I Arousing interest. I ^
De- I Some years since a pastor of a New I po
en- 1 England city church announced a mis- (
I sionary meeting for Sunday evening on I
our I a new plan. He selected two laymen to I tke
I speak on some phase of missions. One j
lii, I of those selected for this work was a] **
; I young man who had never made an ad- 1
I dress before so large a company. His I
I timidity and objections were overcome, I
| and he selected "The Evangelization of J
the Sandwich Islands" as his theme.
The public library furnished several
by I volumes which were read and noted
I and a short speech prepared covering
the prominent points in the story of its I used
missions. It was a simple incident and I the
I probably passed from the mind of the I and
I pastor soon after. Its effect on the IA
I young man was permanent. His inter
I est was aroused. He was ledirom busi-1 Size
in I ness into the ministry, and the mission I n p
fields of the church became matter ol
special study. Personal acquaintance I Zl
I with leading missionaries in each mis- 1 trB
I non field has led to the collection of I p
I photographs, which in the form of slides '
I for the stereopticon are widely in use
I among the Leagues to illustrate the
work of our church among the heathen.
Set the young people at -work- searching I
I and talking, and they will acquire aü I
I interest which will last lifelong. j
| - | for
make
Some fifteen hundred, years sinw.at
Milan, Italy, there was a noted'teacher I them.
I of rhetoric who had never become a I cured.
I Christian, but held to the belief of the |
I Manicheans. His mother, a devout
I Christian, had never ceased.to pray for
I his conversion. Ambrose, the eloquent
I bishop, was interested in the young
I man. But all arguments had failed to
convince him and all persuasion failed I
to move him. One day a copy of the I Cut
epistle of Paul toth^Romans came un- best
der his notice and the.passage "Put ye
on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not
provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts
thereof" caught his eye and arrested
his attention He could'not get away "
, from it. It fastened conviction until ' Vau
I he saw the truth and decided to become
I a follower of Jesus the Christ. He be
came known as Augustine and was I The
made bishop of Hippo in Africa. Few to
men have been more influential in shap- disease
ing the course of thought in the Chris- in all
tian church than he. Still the word Catarrh
proves itself powerful to convince and known
I to convert, and demonstrates that it is
1 the word of God.
Power of the Word.
being
Cure
upon
system,
The class meeting is not dead or
dying. Spiritual culture will ever need
expression and will seek companion*. P
Ship. The confessional is not adapteà
to an advanced condition of piety. So-1 3trengtl
cial m u— Gu ii and friendly inter-1 and
changw of thought are a necessity. In Tbe P
some form the class meeting must live j carfi
wherever vital piety is not extinct. The I dred
devotional meetings of the League can I Send
do much to perpetuate this helpful
means of grace. Personal testimony is I Sold
a great help to a live Christian. I Hall's
Twenty millions of dollars is a large
sum of money, but that is what thei x
Methodist Episcopal church proposes to •
raise to mark the opening of the twen-1 A
tieth century. It means debts paid, •
schools endowed, hospitals erected, mis- 1 A
sions re-enforced and advance made on I 0
every line. _ | |
Bishop Foss is writing a took on mis- J *
sions in India for the use of the League. I ?
He visited our work there last year, and
with Dr. Goncher of Baltimore
more than any previous official visitor
had ever seen.
t
saw
t
Robbed the Grave.
A startling incident, of which Mr John
Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is
narrated by him as follows: "I was in a
most dreadful condition. My skin was al
most yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and sides, no ap'
petite—gradually growing weaker day by
d »y- Three physicians had given me up, I S
Fortunately a friend advised trying -Elec-- t
proveœent. I continued their use for three
weeks, knd am now a well man. I know
t
T
guaranteed, at
RoVal
April
Mod
come
upon
Baking Powder
re
but
changes
in
the
has
during
of
were
Mo
called
as it
and
the
of
ad
it | How a Gallant Colonel Enriched
English Chnritv.
The London Daily Mail tells this pretty
any I story of a kiss sold at auction: A fascinât
and I ing actress, whose name need not be men
a tioned, being anxious to assist a certain
charity in the provinces, offered a kiss to
the le P llt 11 P to auction. The bidding was
bri ' k aad kad danced in three leaps from
• tW ° gninea9 t0 tilir| y. w hen without fnrth
er , the ronnd sum of£80Q was off
over- I TJl . ro , . . , , .re
j kk - , g , IIgler ld| le kl6S
story , k . ed down f by Uie auctioneer to a col
na- ™ one of our hue regiments, who
de- ? a ?" r e forward lo meett he blushing young
and I & ,1 • - „
„ "" J? , ,lla sur , pnsa 01 ■» P rese nt, the
I K ne , ro uce a dear fair-haired
during explained 'hat it was his grandson's
of I , 1 jnrthday, and that he had acquired
tract I 1 le k ' sa as a birthday gift for him. Where-
began I upon Miss-took the child in her arms
dis- 1 aild d ischarged her debt with interest. The
charity a local one, in which the colonel
Made from
cream of tartar.
pure
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menace» to health of the present day.
ROVAt BAKING POWOCH 80., NEW YORK,
THE STORY' OF A RTSS.
an
and
But
gos-1 t00 ^ a keen interest was the richer by £800
was I f° r the granddad's generous whim,
world I But a little bird whispered afterward that
I at the colonel's dinner party that night he
South I bed one also "on the strict Q. T."
of I
the | Last
na
and i T h P i««t __ ...
Pem svlvan^ R^ -^ ^ ° f
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