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INSPIRING RELIGION. ?
Dr. Talmage Preaches on Solomon's
Wisdom-Sweet Spices of
Christianity.
lt Counteracts All Trouble ?? No Dolorous
Music Needed.
t Cops-right 1901.1
. ' Washington*. D. C.?Ia this discourse
Dr. Talmage corrects some of the false
notions about religion, and represents it
at being joy inspiring instead of dolorous;
text, II. Chronicles ix, 9, "Of spices great
abundance; neither was there any such
spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King
Solomon."
What is that building out yonder, glit?
tering in the 6un? Have you not heard?
It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
King Solomon has just taken to it his
bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the
pillars of the portico and a great tower,
adorned with 1090 shields of gold, hung
on the outside of the tower,. 500 of the
shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's
order; 500 were captured by David, his
father, in battle. See how they blaze in
the noonday sun!
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his
throne, between twelve lions in statuary,
and sits down on the back of the golden
bull, the head of the huge beast turned to?
ward the people. The family and the at?
tendants of the king are so many that the
caterers of the palace have to provide
every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen,
besides the birds and the venison. I hear
the stamping and pawing of 4000 fine
horses in the royal stables. There were
important officials who had charge of the
work of gathering the straw and the bar?
ley for these horses. King Solomon was
an early riser, tradition says, and used to
take a ride out at daybreak, and when in
his white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of nil the realm and followed by |
mounted archers in purple, as the eaval- i
cade dashed through the streets of Jem- j
salem I suppose it was something wnrth
getting up at 5 o'clock in thc morning to
look at.
Solomon was not like nome of the kings
of the present dav?crowned imbecility.
All the splendors of his palace and retinue
were eclipsed by his intellectual power.
Why, he seemed to know everything. He
was the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted
the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in
the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish
and aviaries with foreign birds, ana tradi?
tion says these birds were so well tamed
that Solomon might walk clear across the
city under the shadow of their wings as
they hovered and flitted about him.
? ? 3Jore.than this, he had a great reputa?
tion for the conumdrums and riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King Hi?
ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles, each one paying in money
if he could not answer or guess the riddle.
The Solomonic navy visited all the world,
and the sailors, of course, talked about
f he riddles and enigmas that he made and
solved, and the news spread until Queen
Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and
sent messengers with a few riddles that
she would like to have Solomon solve and
a few puzzles that she would like to have
him find out. She sent, among other
things, to King Solomon a diamond with
ahole so small that a needle could not pen?
etrate it, asking him to thread that dia?
mond. And Solomon took a worm and
put it at the opening in the diamond, and
the worm crawled through, leaving the
thread in the diamond. The queen also
sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to
fill it with water that did not pour from
the sky and that did not rush out from
the earth, and immediately Solomon put
a slave on the back of a swift horM and
galloped him around and around the park
until the horse was nigh exhausted, and
from the perspiration of the horse the
goblet was filled. She also sent to King
Solomon 500 boys in girls' dress and 500
{[iris in boys' dress, wondering if he would
ie acute enough to find out the deception,
Immediately Solomon, when he saw them
wash their faces, knew from the way they
applied the water that it was all a cheat.
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acuteness of Solomon that she said. "I'll
just go and see him for myself." Yonder
it comes?the cavalcade?horses and dro?
medaries, chariots and charioteers, -jing?
ling harness and clattering hoofs and blaz?
ing shields and flying ensigns and clapping
cymbals. The place is saturated with the
perfume. She brings cinnamon and saf?
fron and calamus and frankincense,and all
manner of sweet spices. As the retinue
sweeps through the gate the armed guard
inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the char?
ioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in
front of the pillared portico of the king.
Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be?
witched with perfume. As the dromeda?
ries are driven up to the king's store?
houses and the bundle3 of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and
the boxes of spices are opened the pur?
veyors of the palace discover what my text
announces: "Of spices, great abundance.
Neither was there any such spice as the
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."
Well, my friends, you know that all the?
ologians agree in making Solomon a type
of Christ, and in making the Queen of
Sheba a tyne of every truth seeker, and I
will take the responsibility of saying that
all the spikenard and cassia and frankin*
cense which the Queen of Sheba brought
to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of
the sweet spices of our holy religion.
Christianity is not a collection of sharp
technicalities and angular facts and chro?
nological tables and dry statistics.
Our religion is compared to frankincense
and to cassia, but never to nightshade.
Jt is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of
holy light. It is a sparkle of cool foun?
tains. It is an opening of opaline gates.
It is a collection of spices. Would God
that we were as wise in taking 6piceB to
our divine King as Queen Balkis was wise
in taking the spices to the earthly Solo?
mon.
The fact is that the duties and cares of
this life, coming to us from time to time,
are stupid often and inane and intolerable.
Herc are men who have been battering,
climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty
years, forty years, fifty years. One great,
long drudgery has their life been, their
faces anxious, their feelings benumbed,
their days monotonous. What is neces?
sary to brighten up that man's life and to
sweeten that acid disposition and to put
sparkle into the man's spirits? The spic
ery of our holy religion. Why. if between
the losses of life there dashed the gleam
of an eternal gain, if between the betray?
als of life there came the gleam of the un?
dying friendship of Christ, if in dull times
in business we found ministering spirits
flying to and fro in our office and store
and shop, everyday life, instead of being
a stupid monotone, would be a glorious in?
spiration, penduluming between calm sat?
isfaction and high rapture.
How any woman keeps house without
the religion of Christ to help her is a
mystery to me. To have to spend the
greater part of one's life, as many women
do, in planning for the meals, and stitch?
ing garments that will soon be rent again,
and deploring breakages, and supervising
tardy subordinates and driving off dust
that soon again will settle, and doing the
same thing day in and day out and year
in and year out until the hair silvers, and
the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl
to the eyes and the grave breaks open
under the thin sole of the shoe?oh, it is
a long monotony! But when Christ comes
ta the drawing room, and comes to the
kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and
comes to the dwelling, then how cheery
becomes all womanly duties I She is never
alone now. Martha gets through fretting
and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. AU
day lon? Deborah is happy because she can
help Lapidoth: Hannan, because she can
make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam;
because she can w.Uch her infant brother;
Kachcl. because she can help her father
water *'ie stock; the widow ot Sarepta. be?
cause I ? cruse of oil is being replenished.
I Km. confess that a great deal of the
relipion of this day is utterly insipid.
There is nothing piquant or elevating
about it. Men and women go around
humming psalms in a minor key and cul?
tivating melancholy, and their worship
has in it more sighs than raptures. We
do not doubt their piety. Oh, no! But
they are sitting at a feast where the cook
has forgotten to season the food. Every?
thing is""*riat in their experience and in
their conversation. Emancipated from sin
and death and hell and on their way to a
magnificent heaven, they act as though
they were trudging on toward an everlast?
ing. Botanv Br.v.. Reunion does not seem.
tb'agree with them. It seems to catch in
the windpipe and become a tight strangu?
lation instead of an exhilaration. All the
infidel books that have been written, from
Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, hay
not done so much damage to our Chris?
tianity as lugubrious Christians.
Who wants a religion woven out of tho
shadows of the night? Why go growling
on your way to celestial enthronementT
Come out of that cave and sit down in the
warm light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Away with your odes to melancholy and
Hervey VMeditations Among the Tombs!"
I have to say also that we need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our relig?
ious teaching, whether it be in thc prayer
meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the
church. We ministers need more fresh
air nnd sunshine in our lungs nnd our
heart and our head. Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being converted
when you find so little vivacity in the pul?
pit and in the pew? We want, like the
Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhor?
tations more lilies of the field. We want
fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer
sesquipedalian words, and when we talk
about shadows we do not want to say
adumbration, and when we mean queer?
ness we do not want to talk about idiosyn?
crasies, or if a stitch in the back we do
not want to talk about lumbago, but, in
the plain vernacular of the great masses, '
preach that gospel which proposes to
make all men happy, honest, victorious and
free. In other words, we want more cin?
namon and less gristle. Let this be so in
all the different departments of work to
which the Lord calls us.
I promise a high spiritual blessing to
anv one who will sing in church and who
will sing so heartily that the people all
around cannot help but sing. Wake up,
all the churches from Bangor to San
Francisco and across Christendom! It
is not a matter of preference; it is a mat?
ter of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times
more volume of sound than has yet rolled
up from our churches! German chorals
in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet
Germany has received nothing at the hands
of God compared with America. And ought
the acclaim in Germany bo louder than
that of America? Soft, long drawn out
music is appropriate for the drawing
room and appropriate for the concert,
but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing ap?
propriate for churches when in listening
to the temple service of heaven he says:
"I heard a great voice, as the voice of a
great multitude and as the voice of many
waters and as the voice of mighty thun?
derings. Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth!"
Join *vith me in a crusade, giving me not
only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, and 1 believe we can,
through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls
into the kingdom of Christ. An argument
they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk
down, but a 5000 voiced utterance of praise
to God is resistible. Would that Queen
Balkis would drive all her spice laden
dromedaries into our church music. "Nei?
ther was any such spice as the Queen of
Sheba gave King Solomon."
Now, I want to impress you with the
fact that religion is sweetness and per?
fume and spikenard and saffron and cin?
namon and cassia nnd frankincense and all
sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I
have not looked at it as such. I thought
it was a nuisance. It had for me a re?
pulsion. I held my breath as though it
were a fnalodor. I have been appalled at
its advance. I have said, if I have any re?
ligion at all, I want to have just as little
ot it as is possible to get through with."
Oh, what a mistake you have made, my
brother!' The religion of Christ is a pres?
ent and everlasting redolence. It coun?
teracts all trouble. Just put it on the
stand beside the pillow ot sickness, lt
catches in the burtains and perfumes the
stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter
medicine and throws a glow on the gloom
of the turned lattice. It is a balm for tbe
aching side and a soft bandage for the
temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel
Pvutnerford into a revelry of spiritual de?
light while he was in physical agonies. It
helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst
of such a complication of diseases as per?
haps no other man ever suffered, he wrote
"The Saint's Everlasting Rest. And it
poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon,
the light of the shining gate of the shin?
ing city. And it is good for rheumatism
and for neuralgia and for low spirits and
for consumption. It is the catholicon for
all disorders. Yes, it will heal all your
sorrows.
Why did you look so sad this morning
when you came in? Alas, for the loneli?
ness and the heartbreak and the load that
is never lifted from your soul! Some of
vou go about feeling like Macaulay when
he wrote, "If I had another month of
such days as I have been spending, I
would be impatient to get down into my
little narrow crib in the ground, like a
weary factory child." And there have
been times in your life when you wished
you could get out of this life. You have
said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be
the dust of the valley!" and wished you
could pull over you in your last slumber
the coverlet of green grass and daisies.
You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet
it must be in the tomb! I wish I was
there!"
I see all around about me widowhood
and orphanage and childlessness, sadness,
disappointment, perplexity. If I could
ask all those in any audience who have
felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no
disappointment?if I could ask all such
to rise, how many would rise? Not one.
A widowed mother, with her little child,
went West, hoping to get better wages
there, and she was taken sick and died.
The overseer of the poor got her body and
put it in a box and put it in a wagon and
started down the street toward the ceme?
tery at full trot. The little child, the only
chiid, ran after it through the streets,
bareheaded, crying: "Bring me back my
mother! Bring me back my mother! '
And it was said that as the people looked
on and saw her crying after that which
lay in the box in the wagon, all she loved
on earth?it is said the whole village was
in tears. And that is what a great many
of you are doing-*-chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all this
sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the
thought of resurrection and reunion far
beyond this scene of struggle and tears.
"They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
them nor any heat, for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes." Across the couches of your sick
and across the graves of your dead I fling
this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis,
driving up to the pillared portico of the
? house of cedar, carried no such pungency
of perfume as exhales to-day from the
Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweet?
ness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfac?
tion, this gospel I commend to you.
May God grant that through your own
practical experience you may find that re?
ligion's ways are ways of pleasantness and
'that all her paths are paths of peace; that
it is perfume now and perfume forever.
;And there was an abundance of spice;
"neither was there any such spice as the
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."
Cak.nl Tells ft Problem.
The fluent?un of tolls on the Isth?
mian canal it not so simple as it was
In th*) casu of the Suez, writes a cor?
respondent of the New York Post. We
have a much greater "marginal traffic"
to consider?one which may be con?
trolled by the rate of toll. The west
toast of South America, in its dealings
with Europe, ought to furnish abom
one-third of the available traffic of thc
new canal, if opened in 1915. All thal
traffic practically could pay a toll of
$1 a ton. Between the west coast ol
South America and the eastern port?
of the United States the traffic coule
pay a still heavier toll, as the savins;
over the route "round the Horn'
would be still greater. On the princi?
ple of charging whatever the traffic
could bear, certain cargoes going
through the canal could doubtless af?
ford to pay $3 or $4 a ton.
To grow old nicely is a great art,
and old people ar* quite mistaken in
imagining that they must necessarily
be bores to the young, though som*
eMerly pecple_ara certainly trying.
DUR HORSES FOR BRITISH
/IOUNTS FOR THE CAVALRY THAT
CHASES DE WET.
Cathrop In Missouri ls More Prosperous
Than Ever Before and the Ilesidents
Hope the Boers May Keep at It For?
ever and Erer.
Every dispatch that tells of one of
DeWet's successful manoeuvres adds
anywhere from Sf5 to f 15 au acre to
farm land lu this immediate vicinity.
Lathrop is in the heyday of its glory,
Bini the fervent prayer of every man,
woman nnd child of its 1200 popula?
tion is that the Boers will fight for a
generation.
The military department of the Brit?
ish Government has transferred its
headquarters for the purchasing and
stabling of horses for the Transvaal
war from New Orleans to this point
on the Burlington Railroad, forty
miles north of Kansas City, and the
activity -which was noted in the pur?
chase of horses at the beginning of
the war seems to increase with each
mouth. Horses are being shipped to
South Africa from Lathrop at the rate
of 2500 a week. The six veterina?
rians employed by the British Govern?
ment brand and vaccinate between
400 and 500 horses a day. and all of
these are kept here instead of at New
Orleans, and shipped only as needed
to load the vessels bound for South
Africa. To feed these horses the Brit?
ish Government pays thirty-five cents
a head a day and the little item of
feed for the horses alone costs on an
average of $1000 a day.
But this *s a small proportion of the
revenue which Lathrop and the farm?
ers hereabouts are deriving from the
necessities of war. Before the horses
are inspected, branded and vaccinated
they are pastured by Guyton _ Har?
rington, the St. Louis-Kansas City
firm, which has a five years' contract
to supply the British Government with
all the horses and mules required in
Ihe South African war. This firm,
which baa already grown rich, has
bought something like 1600 acres of
laud near its stables, and ls negotiat?
ing for more. But the land owned hy?
the firm is not sufficient to accommo?
date more than a small percentage of
the 10,000 horses and mules in stock,
and all the available pasture land in
every direction has been rented. As
their necessities increase, the farmers,
with true Yankee thrift, advance the
price of pasturage.
All of these clever financial coups
have shavpened the Clinton County
mind aud as the wise men of the town
seek the shady corner of what was
once a bank, but is now a barber shop,
one can hear repeated each half hour
lu the day this learned deduction: Now,
you see the British have got to keep
up the fight. It would never do for
England to admit that a handful of
Dutch farmers could lick the empire.
So as long as the Boers continue to
fight the British will have to fight if
it takes every dadgasted man in the
country."
Number Two?Ain't them Boers
stayers for you ?
Every, boy in town that knows how
to ride cnn get a job breaking horses
brought from the plains of Idaho or
Wyoming. Every man with a team
can find employment hauling feed.
There are no unemployed who can
and will work. Although the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad has
miles of side track here it must build
more switches. There are no days
when gossip flags. What with the es?
timates of the amount of money Guy?
ton & Harrington are making, the
possibilities of love affairs with the
English officers, the cockney accent of
some of the "doctors," stampeded
horses and negotiations for new tracts
of land, every day in Lathrop is one
of circus-day activity and explains
why the most welcome news that is
brought to town is the report of a
Boer victory.
"_?'fore the change was made trans?
ferring the headquarters of veterinar?
ians and inspectors of the British Gov?
ernment from New Orleans to Lathrop
the stables on the "Y" connecting the
Burlington and branch line of the San?
ta Fe at this place were sufficient for
the business of Messrs. Guyton & Har?
rington. On this tract they had erect?
ed a mammoth stable for the accom?
modation of the horses and mules pur?
chased in Missouri und Kansas for
shipment to New Orleans. When the
Indications began to point unerringly
to a continuation of the fighting and
experience had taught that the life of
a horse in South Africa was on an
average about three months, the Brit?
ish Government began to prepare for
a protracted struggle which included
a fresh supply of horses and mules.
Just as the big packers have located
their packing houses near the base of
supplies, so the British established
their headquarters.
The horses supplied the British Gov?
ernment do not compare with these
accepted by Uncle skua. The price,
too, ls about one-half. Although the
contract between Guyton & Harring?
ton and the British Government is a
secret, the estimate here of the price
paid is $75 a head. Nearly all tho
horses nov/ being shipped CKM from
the ranges in Idaho, South Dakota and
Wyoming. Nobody would ever offer
them for sale to the United States
military authorities. They come by
thc carload almost daily. From the
time the horses are unloaded until
they are inspected, branded and vac?
cinated, the entire train travels nt a
breakneck speed. The feed and
freight wagons move nt a fast trot
with never a let-up during the day.
The horses when headed for a pas?
ture go at a fierce gallop with horse?
men riding like mad to head them
off from diverging lanes. Now and
then there is a stampede and a hun?
dred wild horses dash down Lathrop's
business street.
The Government's equipment for
branding horses is complete. As a
herd is to be branded it is driven to
a lot adjoining the immense stables.
The fences run in a semi-circle and
gradually approach each other until
n lane is formed just wide enough to
accommodate one horse. The lane is
made of heavy timber and as the
horses enter it sticks of timber are
run in front of their forelegs through
apertures built for the purpose, and
again at their hips. The untamed
Western range horses rear and endeav?
or to plunge. Even when thus fast
med it ii impossible to brand them
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on the jaw unless their heads are fast?
ened with halters.
On inspection days thc officer in
charge ls in the heydey of his glory,
The horses are inspected at the Guy?
ton & Harrington stables in town. All
that part of town in the vicinity of the
stables is practically under martini
law. Nobody is permitted to coi_<*
near the animals which are to be
passed upon. The commanding officer
is a more or less petulant person, who
creates the Impression that he labors
under Um* constant fear of a Boer spy
playing the role of a Clinton County
citizen.
Ali the branding and vaccinating is
done at the hospital farms, northeast
of town. An arrow head branded on
the jaw, shoulders or hips oenotes
the grade of the animal, while the hoof
ls branded to indicate whether the
animal is intended for thc mounted
infantry, yeomanry or cavalry. The
horses are vaccinated, their tails are
tabbed and the animals are ready for
shipment to New Orleans.
If 10,000 horses a month are shipped
from Lathrop, the present average, the
cost to the British Government for
horses alone would be approximately
$12,000,000. To feed 3000 horses and
mules, which is. about the average of
the stock kept on hand wbicb has
been Inspected, adds $305,000 more
for this item. Clinton County farmer*
have disposed of $04,000 worth of
laud and negotiations are pending for
almost as nuch more. The amount
spent for the rent of pastures cannot
be ascertained, but it reaches ? hand?
some figure. But despite its prosperi?
ty the citizens of Lathrop, every one
of whom claims to be au expert judge
of horses, expresses his contempt
whenever the opportunity presents it?
self, and frequently when it doesn't,
for the kind of horses the British Gov?
ernment is buying. "If I was a soldier
mounted on one of those horses," said
a Lathrop judge of horseflesh, point?
ing to a herd from Wyoming, "and the
Boers would get after me I would dis?
mount nnd take to my heels. I would
stand a better chance of getting
away."
"You haven't got any kick coming."
said his neighbor, "we're exchanging
all our poor horses for good British
gold."- Kansas City Star.
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High heels had their origin in
neither fashion nor pride. They were
introduced into Persia for the very
practical purpose of raising the feet
from thc burning sands of that coun?
try.
A mathematician who was curious
to know about it has figured out that
the weight of the air which encircles
the earth is equal to that of 581,000
"cubes of copper, each 1093 yards
square.
Many countries have curious meth?
ods of raising money to reduce taxa?
tion. In Hesse, Germany, a tax has
been put upon the bachelors, who now
have to pay twenty-five per cent,
more in taxes than married men. The
result has been that mauy well-to-do
bachelors have emigrated to Prussia.
A curious custom was revived at
Great Oakley, England, where parish
lands were let by "pin in candle." Thc
local clergyman presided. A pi il is
inserted in a burning candle, and so
long as it remains iu its tallow rest?
ing place bids are taken. The last
bidder before the pin drops is declared
the tennnt for the year.
A progressive wholesale and retail
clothing house has introduced a dem?
onstrating ciass'for the benefit of its
customers, anent the woolen manufac?
turing industry. The various pro?
cesses of evolution undergone by the
wool In transit to the wearer are ex?
plained and illustrated in detail. The
use of shoddy, mungo, waste and other
forms of wool stoc_ is expounded.
Perhaps the most picturesque and de?
lightful form of picnic is that which
obtains at the "Isle Robinson," on the
outskirts of Paris. Dinner is served
in the branches of enormous tress
which stud the island, and waiters
may be espied hurrying through thc
treetops, conveying food and drink to
the arboral revellers. These picnics
in question afford unbounded delight
to thousands of Parisians, as well ao
foreign visitors.
A primitive surface for the recep?
tion of literary composition is the com?
mon oystershell of thc familiar dust?
bin. It is recorded of thc Greek phi?
losopher, Cleanthus, that he wrote hie
notes from the lectures and discourees
of his master, Geno, on small shells,
being too poor to buy more expensive
material. In Greece, too. votes were
inscribed on oyster-shells (ostraca),
and it was by these votes that an ob?
jectionable person might be banished
the country, or "ostracized." Later,
cither oyster-shells or potsherds were
used indifferently, and afterward
potsherds alone?which were still
called "ostraca."
Georgia's Giant Sycamore Tree.
Dougherty County now lays claim to
the champion big tree of Georgia. It
was discovered several weeks ago by
employes of a lumber company who
were engaged in cutting timber. It
rears its head from amid a thick
swamp where hardwood trees abound,
and to this ls due the fact that it was
not discovered sooner.
This giant of the swamp is a syca?
more. It ls on a little knoll, and ex
cept in seasons when a great deal of
rain has fallen its trunk is not reached
by water. A foot from tbe ground
its trunk is forty-four feet in circum?
ference. For twenty feet above the
ground the body of the great tree is
round and symmetrical, but at thnt
point it branches into four sections,
any one of which would make a giant
tree if standing alone. The four arms
of the big sycamore do not spread out
as would seem natural, but reach
skyward, almost perpendicularly. The
tree is pronounced by all who have
seen it a curiosity and places "in the
shade" all the known trees in Georgia.
-_tlant- Constitution.
A Gentleman Indeed.
"You can always tell a gentl-ii-i. I
thorough gentleman, wlicne. er you m:et
him," observed the fat man with the
blue nccktie to his smoking acquaint?
ance.
"Yes, I think you can," was the reply.
"I came down from Boston with one
thc other day. He was ' interested in
electricity, and I told him all about the
new trolley line through our town."
"Is it different from any other line?"
"No: but as one of thc city aldermen
I helped get the charter through."
"Why. he never asked me what the
rompany paid for my influence."
Those l>it:u-,-i'otu SclioolinVams.
"Do you remember that schoolmarm
that I was so much mashed on when we
went to school together down at thc
Forks?"
"Yep. Where is she now?"
"I left her at my home half an hour
ago."
"Then you married lier, after all?"
"Not much 1 didn't! She married my
youngest boy!"
Perhaps He'll Fp.ak.
Tess?She's got such an awful sore
throat she can't speak above a whisper.
But she's just tickled to death about it.
Jess?The idea!
Tess?Yes; you sec that timid yo'tng
Milyuns is to call on her this even ng,
and lic'il have to sit close to her on that
account.
Free lt loud (ure,
Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) earea blood
an<l (kin humors like ulcers, eatin:: s ?rc**.
eczjma, itching; skin, a?ing bones IB?Joints',
boils, scrofula, blood j.oison. cancer, etc. U.
B. B. cures nil malign int b'onl troubles, old
deeps' a od oaios, neils every ?oro. makes
thc blood pure and rici. Drugeifts, 11.00,
Treatment free and pie,?id ly describing
your trouble and writing Dr. Gillam, 12 Mit?
ch lt St., At'anta, Ga.
A centurv ago Glasgow had a population
of 77,385. To-day it has nearly 800,000.
AU goods are alike to Putnam Fadeless
Dyes, as they color all fibers at ono boiling.
Hold by all druggists. _
Two electric mountain railroads have
licen constructed to operate on the French
slope of the Pyrenees.
The favorite flower of the fortune hunt?
er is marigold.
How's Thia?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be curod by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F.J. CHKNEY _ Co., Prop*., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for the last 1") years, and believe him per?
fectly honorable in all business transactions
nnd financially able to carry out any obliga?
tion made by their firm.
\Vest_ Truax, Wholesale Druggists.Toledo,
Ohio.
WALDONk, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure ls ?ken internally, act?
ing directly upon the blom; and mucous sur?
faces of the system. Price. _o. per bottle.
Bold br all Dragttlats. Testimonial* timm.
Hairs Family Pills are thc boat
Thc man who says he would share his
last dollar with you somehow or other
never gets down to his last dollar.
?adies Cnn Wear Shoes
One _M smaller after using Alton's Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat?
ing, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunion?. At all df?g*jl_ and shoo ?*>**_,
25c. Trial packago FBEE by mail. Address
Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Every woman who marries feels that to
a certain degree she is a reformer.
Krnt For flit; Rowel*.
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
_3y natural movements, cost you jnst 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cas
caeets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C.
stamped on it. Beware of imitntionj.
Etymologists declare that thc sugar?
cane has 227 varieties of insect enemies.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous?
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's (__>!
Nerve Restorer. *?2 trial bottlo and treatise free
Dr. Ii. H. Kline, Ltd., ttl Arch Hi., Phila. Pa
Brazil grows about half the coffee crop
of the world.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forc'iildrsn
teeth in?, soften tho gums, reduces inflamma?
tion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a ootfcl*.
The grantest railroad in the world is in
the United States.
Piso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken o'
as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third
Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. ti, 190J.
The number of emigrants who left Ger?
many in 1900 was 22,309.
See advt, of S_ithdea_ s Business College
The greatest marble quarry is in Ver?
mont.
Th? Wrong; Place..
"Say, now." he began, as he put his
head into thc door at a cobbler shop,
'answer mc a question right off quick?
what does consensus mean?"
"She means." replied the cobbi*:, as
he held his hammer suspended and
turned on his bench, "she means dot
you vhas mit?token in der place. Der
saloon vhas four doors pelow."
Coughing
"I was given up to die with
quick consumption. I then began
to use Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I
improved at once, and am now in
perfect health."?Chas. E. Hart?
man, Glbbstown, N. Y.
It's too risky, playing
with your cough.
? The first thing you
Know it will be down
deep in your lungs and
the play will be over. Be?
gin early with Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral and stop
the cough.
Three sties: 25c.. 54c., SI- All tf-gfists.
Consult your doctor. If he ??ys take lt.
J then do as he says. If he tells you not
1 to take lt, then don't take lt. He knows.
1 Leave lt with him. We are willing-.
1 j. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
A Bad Breath
A bad breath means a bad
stomach, a bad digestion, a
bad liver. Ayer's Pills are
liver pills. They cure con?
stipation, biliousness, # dys?
pepsia, sick headache.
25c All druggists.
f"'"1'.-.?' ?" -
Want your moustache or beard a beautiful
brown or rich black? Then use
BUCKINGHAM'S DYE-.ISIS,,.
, I 60 CTS. O' Dt-SO .Ti, Ol *. P. H?*A> CO., Naiwua, H.M.
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Ho Might Have Failed.
"And now. my friends."' said the lec?
turer on "The Life and Times of Gorge
Washington," when he had concluded
his address, "if any of you cares to ask
me a question, please speak up."
"Do you think Washington's charac?
ter was fully tested?" queried a mri in
ihe audience.
"It was as far a< could be?utider the
(hen existing situation ol affair*," Wai
the reply.
"But he never held thc end seat of an
open car when a fat woman wanted to
get on."
"Never, ol' course, and as greatly a> I
admire the great man I cannot make up
my mind whether he would have hitched
along like a gentleman or held fast to
his place like a hog."
<):ilv ? ie Answer.
??Jigger?He docs ask some of the
most useless que?ions. He saw roast
chicken on the bill of fare to-day and he
asked the waiter il he thought it was
good.
Thingumbob?Well, how was that a
useless question?
M?Jigger?The waiter was a colored
man.
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Typewriting, Penmanship, Telegraphy. &c
" Leading u_ine_ ccltepe sout!> ol tht Potomac
river. ?Phila Stenographer. Ad ?ess,
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