News and Citizen.
MORRIS VIIXE and HYDE PARK,
Thursday, May 26. 1892.
MAJESTY AND MIGHT.
THE TREMENDOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE WORD."SELAH."
Br. Tal.iage's Eloquent Discourse E
gurlis an Oft Repeated Yet Little Un
derstood Old Testament Expression,
Practical Lessons for Christians.
Brooklyn, May 23. Rev. Dr. Tal
Viase today took for the subject of his
rermon a single word of frequent occur
rence in the Bible, and whose meaning
is but little understood. From it he
drew a profoundly impressive descrip
tion of the varied and majestic purposes
of certain parts of Scripture, and a prac
tic.il lesson for Christians generally.
The test was Psalms lxi. 4, "Selah."
The majority of Bible readers look
npon this word of my test as of no im
portance. ' They consider it a superfra
lty, a mere tilling in. a meaningless in
terjection, a useless refrain, an unde
fined echo. Selah! But 1 have to tell
yon that it is no Scriptural accident. It
occurs seventy-four times in the Book of
Psalms and three times in the Book of
Habakknk. You must not charge this
perfect book with 6eventy-seven triviali
ties. Selah! It is an enthroned word.
If. according to an old writer, some
words are battles, then this word is a
Marathon, a Thermopylae, a Sedan, a
W aterloo. It is a word decisive, some
times for poetic beauty, sometimes for
selemnity, sometimes for grandeur, and
sometimes for eternal import. Through
it roll the thundering chariots of tha
omnipotent God.
1 take this word for my text because 1
am so often asked what is its meaning,
or whether it has any meaning at all. It
has an ocean of meaning, from which 1
shall this morning dip up only four or
five bucketfuls. I will speak to you, so
far as I have time, of the Selah of poetic
significance, the Selah of intermission,
the Selah of emphasis and the Selah of
perpetuity.
Are yon surprised that 1 speak of the
Selah of poetic significance? Surely the
God who sapphired the heavens and
'made the earth a rosebud of beaut',
with oceans hanging to it like drops of
morning dew, would not make a Bible
without rhythm, without redolence,
without blank verse. God knew that
eventually the Bible would be read by a
great majority of young people, for in
this world of malaria and casualty an
octogenarian is exceptional, and as thir
ty years is more than the average of
human life, if the Bible is to be a suc
cessful book it must be adapted to the
young. Hence the prosody of the Bible
the drama of Job, the pastoral of
Ruth, the epic of Judges, the dithyram
bic of Habakkuk, the threnody of Jere
miah, the lyric of Solomon's Song, the
oratorio of the Apocah-pse, the idyl, the
strophe and antistrophe, and the Selah
of the Psalms.
ITS GREAT SIGNIFICANCE.
Wherever you find this word Selah, it
means that you are to rouse np to great
stanza, that you are to open your soul to
great analogies, that you are to spread
the wing of your imagination for great
Cight. "1 answered thee in the secret
place of thunder: I proved thee at the
waters of Meribah. Selah." "The earth
and all the inhabitants thereof are dis-
solved; 1 bear up the pillars of it. Se
lah." "Whoisthis King of Glory? The
Lord of Hosts, he is the King of Glory.
Selah." "Thou shalt compass me about
with songs of deliverance. Selah.'
"Though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake
with the swelling thereof. Selah.'
"The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God
of J acob is our refuge. Selah." "Thou
hast given a banner to them that fear
thee, that U may be displayed because
of the truth. Selah." "I will hide un
der the covert of thy wings. Selah."
Oh, God, when thou wentest forth bo
fore thy people, when thon didst march
through the wilderness. Selah."
Whorever you find this word it is asig-
Cal of warning hnng out to tell you to
tand off the track while the rushing
train goes by with its imperial passen
gers. Poetic word, charged with sun
rise and sunset, and tempest and earth
quake, and resurrections and millen
niums. Next 1 come to speak of the Selah of
intermission. Gesenius, Tholuck, Heng
stenberg and other writers agree in say
ing that this word Selah means a rest in
music; what the Greeks call a diap
Balma, a pause, a halt in the solemn
inarch of cantillation.
Every musician knows the importance
of it. If you ever saw Jullien, the great
musical leader, stand before five thou
sand singers and players upon instru
ments, and with one stroke of his baton
smite the multitudinous hallelujah into
silence, and then, soon after that, with
another stroke of his baton rouse np the
full orchestra to a great outburst of har
mony, then you know the mighty effect
of a musical pause. It jpves more pow
er to what went before; it gives more
power to what is to come after.
So God thrusts the Selah into his Bible
and into our lives, compelling us to stop
and think, stop and consider, stop and
admire, stop and pray, stop and repent,
i top and be sick, stop and die. It is not
the great number of times that we read
;he Bible through that makes us intelli
gent in the Scriptures. We must pause.
What though it take an hour for one
word? What though it take a week for
one verse? What though it take a year
for one chapter? We must pause and
measure the height, the depth, the
length, the breadth, the universe, the
eternity of meaning in one verse.
I should like to see some one sail
around one little adverb in the Bible, a
little adverb of two letters, during one
lifetime the word "so" in the New
Testament passage, "God so loved the
world." Augustine made a long pause
after the verse, "Put ye on the Lord Je
sus Christ," and it converted him. Mat
thew Henry made a long pause after the
verse, "Op;n thou my lips, and my
mouth shall show forth thy praise," and
it converted him. William , Cowper
made a long pause after the verse, "Be
ing freely justified by his grace," and it
converted fcim. When God tells us
seventy-seven times meditatively to
pause in reading two of the books of the
Bible, he leaves to our common sense to
decido how often we should pause in
reading the other sixty-four books of the
Bible.
GOD CALLS A HALT.
We must pause and ask for more light.
We must pause and weep over our sins.
We must pause and absorb the strength
of one promise. 1 sometimes hear peo
ple boasting about how many times they
have read the Bible through, when they
faem to know no more about it than a
passenger would know about the state
of Pennsylvania who should go through
it in a St. Louis lightning express train
and in a Pullman "sleeper," the two
characteristics of the journey, velocity
and somnolence. It is not the number
of times you go through the Bible, but
the number of times the Bible goes
through you. Pause, reflect. Selah! -
So also on the scroll of your life and
mind. We go rushing on in the song of
our prosperity from note of joy to note
of joy, and it is a long drawn out legato,
and we become indifferent and nnappre
ciative when suddenly we come upon a
blank in the music. There is nothing
between those bars. A pause. God
will fill it up with a sickbed, or a com
mercial disaster, or a grave. But, thank
God, it is not a breaking down. It is
only a pause. It helps us to appreciate
the blessings that are gone. It gives us
higher appreciation of the blessings that
are to come.
The Selah of Habakkuk and David is
a dividing line between two anthems.
David begins his book with the words,
I'Blessedis the man," and after seventy-
four Selahs he closes his book with the
words, "Praise ye the Lord." So there
are mercies behind us, and there are
goiug to be mercies before us. It is good
for us that God halts us in our for
tunes, and halts us with physical dis
tress, and halts us at the graves of our
dead. More than once you and 1 have
been halted by such a Selah. You
wrung your hands and said, "1 can't
see any sense in this Providence; I can't
see why God gave me that child, if he is
so soon going to take it away. Oh, my
desolate home! Oh, my broken heart!"
You could not understand it. But it
was not a Selah of overthrow. It gave
you greater appreciation of the bless
ings that have gone; it will yet give you
greater appreciation of the blessings
that will come.
HISTORICAL CITATIONS.
When the Huguenots were being very
much persecuted in France a father and
mother were obliged to fly from the
country, leaving their child in the pos
session of a comparative stranger. They
did not know whether they would ever
return, or returning, if they would be
able to recognize their child, for by that
time she might be grown. The mother
was almost frenzied at the thought of
leaving the child, and then, even if com
ing back again, not being able to know
her. Before they left the father drew
his sword and he marked the wrist of
that child with a deep cut. It must
have been a great exigency to make a
father do that.
Years of absence passed on and after
awhile the parents returned, and their
first anxiety was to find their lost child.
They looked np and down the land, ex
amining the wrists of the young people,
when lo! after awhile the father found
a maiden with a scar npon her wrist.
She knew him not, but he knew her.
And oh, the joy of the reunionl So it is
now. "Whom the Lord If veth he r-has-
teneth. -"I?3at?H5?'uarketn and
when he comes to claim his own the
Lord will know them that are his; know
them by the scar of their trouble, know
them by the stroke of their desolation.
Oh, it is good that the Lord sometimes
halts us. David says, "It is good that
1 have been afflicted. Before I was
afflicted I went astray, but now have 1
kept thy word." Indeed, we must all
soon stop. Scientists have improved
human longevity, but none of them
have proposed to make terrene life per
petual. But the Gospel makes death
only a Selah between two beatitudes
between dying triumph on the one side
of the grave, and celestial escort on the
other side of the grave. Going out of
this life, to the unprepared, is a great
horror.
"Give me more laudanum," said dying
Mirabeau: "give me more laudanum,
that 1 may not think pf eternity and
what is to come." And dying Hobbes
said, "I leave my body to the grave and
my soul to the great perhaps." It was
the discord of an infidel's life breaking
down into the jargon of despair; but the
Gospel makes the death of the Christian
a Selah between redemption and en
thronement. "Almost well,"' said dying
Richard Baxter, "almost well." "Play
those notes over again those notes
which have been so great a delight and
solace to me," said the dying Christian
Mozart. "None but Christ, none but
Christ," exclaimed dying Lambert.
Richard Cameron, the Scotch cove
nanter, went into the battle three times
praying: "Lord, spare the green and
take the ripe. This is the day I have
longed for. This is the day I shall get
my crown. Come, let us fight it to the
last. Forward!" So yon see there is
only a short pause, a Selah of intermis
sion, between dying consolations on the
one side and overtopping raptures on the
other. -
My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise.
And tn my Saviour's image rise.
AS AN EMPHATIC WORD.
I next speak of the Selah of emphasis.
Ewald, the German orientalist and theo-
'vgiau, says that this word means to as-
t--nd; and wherever yon find it, he says,
fon must look after the modulation of
the voice and j-ou must put more force
into vmir utterance. It is a Selah of
emphasis. Ah! my friends, you and 1
need to correct our emphasis. We put
too much emphasis on' this world and
not enough on God and the next world.
People think these things around us are
so important, the things of the next are
not worthy of our consideration. .
The first need for some of us is to
change our emphasis. Look at wretch
edness on a throne. Napoleon, while
yet emperor of France, sat down de
jected, his hands over his face. A lui
came in with a tray of food and said,
"Eat, it will do you good. The em
peror looked up and said, "You are from
the country?" The lad replied, "Yes."
' 1 our father has a cottage and a few
acres of ground?" "Yes." "There is
happiness," said the dejected emperor.
Ah! Napoleon never put the emphasis
in the righi place until he was expiring
at St. Helena.
On the other hand, look at Satisfac
tion amid the worst earthly disadvan
tage. "I never saw until I was blind,"
said a Christian man. "I never knew
what contentment was while I had my
eyesight as I know what content is now
that I have lost my eyesight. I affirm,
though few would credit it, that I would
not exchange my present position and
circumstances for my circumstances be
fore 1 lost my eyesight." That man put
the emphasis in the right place. We
want to put less stress npon this world
and more stress upon our God as our
everlasting portion.
David had found out the nothingness
of this world and the all-sufficiency of
God. Notice how he interjects the
Selahs. "Trust in the Lord at all times;
ye people, pour out your heart before
him. God is a refuge for us. Selah."
"Blessed be the Lord who daily loads
us with benefits, even the God of our
salvation. Selah." "The Lord shall
count, when he writeth up the people,
that this man was born there. Selah."
Let the world have its honors, and its
riches, and its pomp. Let is have the
Lord for my light, my peace, my
fortress, my pardon, my hope, my
heaven.
What sinners value I resign:
Lord! 'tis enough that thou art mine.
1 shall behold thy blissful face.
And stand complete in righteousness.
This world Is all an empty Bhow,
Hut the briKht world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere;
When shall I wake and And me there? '
0 glorious hour! O blest abode!
1 shall be near and like my God,
And sin and sense no more control
The endless pleasures of my soul. ,
But when I speak of the Selah of em
phasis 1 must notice it is a startling, a
dramatic emphasis. It has in it the
Hark, the Hist of the drama. That
wakening and arousing emphasis we
who preach or instruct need to rise more
frequently. The sleepiest audiences in
the world are religious audiences.
NECESSITY OP DRAMATIC FORCE.
You Sabbath school teachers ought to
have more of the dramatic element in
your instructions. By graphic Scripture
scene, by anecdote, by descriptive ges
ture, by impersonation urge your classes
to right action. We want in all our
schools and colleges and prayer meet
ings, and in all our attempts at reform,
and in all our churches to have less of
the style didactic and more of the style
dramatic.
Fifty essays about the sorrows of the
poor could not affect me as a little drama
of accident and suffering 1 saw one slip
pery morning in' the streets of Pluladel
phia. Just ahead of me was a lad,
wretched in apparel, his limb amputated
at the knee; from the pallor of the boy's
cheek the amputation not long before.
He had a package of broken food under
his arm food he had begged, I suppose,
at the doors. As h passed on over the
slippery pavement cautiously and care
fully, I steadied him until his crutch
slipped and he fell. I helped him np as
well as I could, gathered up the frag
ments of the package as well as I could,
put them under one arm and the crutch
under the other arm; but when I saw
the blood run down his pale cheek I was
completely overcome. Fifty essays about
the suffering of the poor could not touch
one like that little drama of accident
and suffering.
Oh, we want in all our different de
partments of usefullness and I address
hundreds of people who are trying to do
good we want more of the dramatic
element and less of the didactic. The
tendency in this day is to drone religion,
to whine religion, to cant religion, to
moan religion, to croak religion, to se
pulchrize religion, when we ought to
present it in animated and spectacular
manner.
Sabbath morning by Sabbath morning
I address many theological students who
are preparing for the ministry. They
come in here from the different institu
tions. I say to them this morning: If
yon will go home and look over the his
tory of the church you' will find that
those men have brought most souls to
Christ who have been dramatic Row
land Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers,
dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dramatic;
John Knox, dramatic; Robert McCheyne,
dramatic; Christmas Evans, dramatic;
George Whitefield, dramatic; Robert
Hall, dramatic; Robert South, dramatic;
Fenelon, dramatic: John Mason, dra
matic; Dr. Nott, dramatic. When you
get into the ministry, if you attempt to
culture that element and try to wield it
for God you will meet with mighty re
buff and caricature, and ecclesiastical
council will take your case in charge,
and they will try to put you down, but
the God who starts you will help you
through, and great will be the eternal
rewards for the assiduous and the
plucky.
GET OUT OF THE RUT.
What we want, ministers and laymen,
is to get our sermons, and our exhorta
tions, and our prayers out of the old rut.
I see a great deal of discussion in the re
ligious papers about why people do not
laMfaL They do not come be
fr&ot interested. The old
hackneyed religious phrases that come
moving down through the centuries will
never arrest the masses. What we want
today, you in your sphere and I in my
sphere, is to freshen up. People do not
want in their sermons the sham flowers
bought at the millinery shop, but the
japonicas wet with the morning dew;
nor the heavy bones of extinct megathe
rium of past ages, but the living rein
deer caught last August at the edge of
Schroon lake.
We want to drive out the drowsy, and
the prosaic, and the tedious, and the hum
lrum, and introduce the brightness and
vivacity, and the holy sarcasm, and the
sanctified wit. and the epigrammatic
power, and the blood red earnestness, and
the fire of religious Keal, and I do not
know of any way of doing it as well as
through the dramatic. Attention! Be
hold! Hark! Selah!
Next I speak of the Selah of perpetu
ity. The Targum, which is the Bible in
Chaldee, renders this word of my text
"forever." Many writers agree in be
lieving and stating that one meaning of
this word is "forever." In this very
verse from which I take my text Selah
means not only poetic significance and
intermission and emphasis, but it means
eternal reverberation forever! G id's
government forever, God's goodness for
ever, the gladness of the righteous for
ever. Of course you and I have not
surveyor "s chain with enough links to
measure that domain of meaning. In
this world we must build everything on
a small scale. A hundred years are a
great while. A tower five hundred feet
is a great height. A journey ot tour
thousand miles is very long. But eter
nity! If the archangel has not strength
of wing to fly across it, but flutters and
drops like a wounded seagull, there is
no need of our trying in the small
shallow of. human thought to voyage
across it.
AN ELOQUENT PERORATION.
A skeptic, desiring to show his con
tempt for the passing years and to show
that he could build enduringly, had his
own sepulcher made of the finest and
the hardest marble, and then he had put
on the door the words, "For time and
for eternity," but it so happened that the
seed of a tree somehow got into an un
seen crevice of the marble. That seed
grew and enlarged until it became a
tree and split the marble to pieces.
There can be no eternalization of any
thing earthly. But forever! Will you
and I live as long as that? We are apt
to think of the grave as the terminus.
We are apt to think of the hearse as our
last vehicle. We are apt to think of
seventy or eighty or ninety years, and
then a cessation.
Intead of that we find the marble slab
of the tomb is only a milestone, mark
ing the first mile, and that the great
journey is beyond. We have only time
enough in this world to put on the san
dals and to clasp our girdle and to pick
up our staff. We take our first step
from cradle to grave, and then we open
the door and start great God, whither?
The clock strikes the passing away of
time, but not the passing away of eter
nity. Measureless, measureless! This
Selah of perpetuity makes earthly ine
qualities so insignificant, the difference
between scepter and needle, between
Alhambra and hut, between chariot and
cart, between throne and curbstone, be
tween Axininster and bare floor, between
satin and sackcloth, very trivial.
This S lah of perpetuity makes our
getting ready so important. For such
prolongation of travel what outfit of
guidebooks, of passports and of escort?
Are we putting out on a desert, simoom
swept and ghoul haunted, or into re
gions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled
gardens? Will it be Elysium or Ge
henna? Once started in that world, we
cannot stop. The current is so swift
that once in no oar can resist it, no helm
can steer out of it, no herculean or
titanic arm can baffle it. Hark to the
long resounding echo, "forever!" Oh,
wake up to the interest of your death
less spirit! Strike out for heaven. Rouse
ye, men and women for whom Jesus
died. Selah! Selah! Forever! Forever!
An Anecdote of the Emperor William.
The forces behind William II are such
as have never been cultivated in Russia,
whose czar lives in hourly dread of as
sassination, and whose people are so
many items of an official budget, so
many nnits in a military report. The
German emperor walks about the streets
of his town as fearlessly and naturally
as any other man, although the life of
his grandfather was twice attempted
One day, in November of 1891, i.o
was walking with a guest through the
narrow and crowded thoroughfare of a
city not far from Berlin. The side
walks were narrow, and as the emperor
is a fast walker, he frequently had to
step out into the street to pass other pe
destrians, and especially clusters of peo
ple who stopped for a chat.
His companion, who had been in Rus
sia, was struck by the democratic man
ner in which the German emperor rubbed
in and out among porters, fishwives,
peasants and the rest of the moving
crowd, chatting the while and acting as
though this was his usual manner of
getting about. He was struck still more
by the fact that no precautions against
a possible murderous fanatic appeared
to have been taken and ventured to
speak of this. The emperor laughed
heartily, and said, "Oh, if I had to stop
to think of such things 1 should never
get through with my day's work."
Poultney Bigelow in Century.
Provisions for a Siege.
The French government, in conjunc
tion with the Paris municipality, are
considering a scheme for the erection of
stores for preserving supplies of frozen
meat, to be need in case of another
siege. Paris in time of war needs 620
tons of meat a day. At this rate all the
flocks of sheep and herds of oxen that
could be brought together at the last
moment would last but a few weeks,
and it might be impossible to feed them.
The stores about to be erected will
contain even in time of peace large sup
plies of meat, and immediately upon a
declaration of war will receive 530,000
tons of beef and mutton. This repre
sents fifty days' full rations, or 100 days'
half rations. The forts around Paris
have sufficient food to last three years.
No war is likely to last this length of
time. Echo. j
Old Towers in Ireland.
The oldest and most noted remains of
religious architecture of Great Britain
are the round towers of Ireland, of
which 118 are still to be seen. They
are all built near churches and monas
teries, and in time of danger were used
as strongholds. When bells were intro
duced many of them were used as bell
towers. Philadelphia Ledger.
To Him That Hath. '
There is nothing dearer to the heart of
the average boy than to bo the proud
possessor of a goat broken to harness.
To own such a steed makes the boy the
leader of the neighborhood, and by the
judicious giving of rides the owner ac
quires a "pull" which lasts usually a3
long as the goat himself can pull.
Fully aware of this, the publisher of
a popular youth's magazine recently of
fered as prizes for the boys securing a
vertain number of new subscribers in a
given time a handsome Angora goat,
harness and gig.
This set the young readers of the paper
a-hustling, and when the time for re
ceiving the subscriptions expired it was
found that every one of the competitors
wanted a goat.
As the publishers had only ten goats,
of course every lad couldn't get one.
Each of the ten leaders in the contest re
ceived his goat and outfit, and to each of
the disappointed contestants a kind let
ter was sent explaining the case, eto.
One of the lucky ten was a western
lad. His goat was promptly boxed np
and forwarded to its destination. The
lad received the box, and on opening it
great was his astonishment when he
saw not only the anxiously expected
goat, but in addition four goatlets, so to
speak, born in transitu. Boston Herald.
Steel Fenceposts.
Steel is now being used in the manu
facture of fenceposts. This is an inno
vation on the old cedar method and
promises to meet with extended use.
One of the latest devices in this direc
tion consists of a thin plate of steel made
in conical shape, being smaller at the
top than at the bottom and encircled
with malleable iron barbs, prepared for
attaching wire or other descriptions of
fencing, is seven inches wide and seven
feet long, with an open slot extending
the entire length. The top is held in
place by an ornamental cap.
The post is designed to be driven into
the ground, thus obviating the necessity
of digging holes. For this purpose a
driving machine has Lien designed,
which is so arranged that it can be set
at any angle, the post being always in a
vertical position when driven into the
ground. One man and a horse are re
quired to operate a machine, which can
do the work of ten men in the same
given time. These posts, before bdng
used, are treated to a bath in a solution
heated by electricity and a coating put
on them to prevent the action of either
salt or alkalies. The cost of maintenance
is small and protection from lire is
assured. American Manufacturer.
Good Accounts, but Hard to Collect.
The collector of one of our largest coal
houses told me yesterday that it was an
utter impossibility for him to get in any
money. Said he: "1 went out this morn
ing with bills against perfectly good cus
tomers, aggregating $2,000, and after a
hard day's work 1 was able to turn in
but $150. The fact of the business is
and it's the only way I can account for
it' he continued, "the luxuries of other
days have become the necessities of to
day." The collector of one of the principal
livery stables in this city told me that
his firm were carrying between $8,000
and $10,000 of perfectly good accounts
upon their books, and that it was really
difficult for them to get enough money
in to pay their feed bills and their men
at the close of each week. "Not," said
he, "that the bills are not perfectly good,
bat there is either an inability or a dis
inclination to pay up at the present time
which makes the situation most embar
rassing." New York Recorder.
Kindness Misinterpreted.
A Springfield man has the feet hoist
ing habit so hard that he has skinned
all the paper off one spot on the parlor
wall. As a caustic bit of sarcasm his
wife nailed his slippers with their toes
pointing to the ceiling over the worn
spot and put a smacking big bow under
them. He misunderstood her inten
tions, kissed her lovingly for her
thoughtfulness, tilted his chair away
back, stuck his stockinged feet into the
accommodating slippers and has sat in
that fashion since. Springfield Home
stead. Bruins versus Work.
Mrs. Gibbs Look at the dust on those
window draperies, Bridget. 1 don't be
lieve you have touched them for a month!
Bridget Thet 1 hevn't, mem; 1 wnz
afraid o' breakin 'em. Do yez suppose
Oi don't know China silk when Oi see it?
Kate Field'ii Washington.
M0SEM
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Established 1857.
For Sale by Child & Walte, Hyde Park; A. G. Alston. E. Hardwick: C. E. Clark, Wolcott,
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ire ir
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Packed only in half-pound and pound toicad packages.
The same as served in the Japanese Garden at the ifure Food Exhibition-.
We send free, on receipt of a sc. stamp, samp'e of either Formos
Oolong or English Breakfast Tea. State your choice.
CHASE St SANBD7N. Boston, Mass.
We sell o'W ta the trrt.
a Fertilizer.
The followiijL
letter explains itself.
Water
Vt., April 27, '02.
Mr. C. S. Pij .;
HyI Il k, Vt.
Dkar iNt'f answer to your re
quests thiil'l 3011 the results of
experiments) lie use of salt, will
say, that 1 4 used salt for several
years in surf Aon on dry plain land,
principally IjjT oats, and ha ve found
that where It have spread salt with
out manure Fas crops have been fully
equal to liberal spreading of
manure wittnit salt. On pieces ly
ing side by sidel have found thac the
oats upon the piece upon which salt
had been pLread would grow fully
six inches fc'iifrher than where no
manure wasfused.
The salt seems to draw the moist
ure from ti.e atmosphere, and I
have observed when- we have had
heavy dews that the moisture from
the dew seems to linger upon the
grain for two or three hours longer
wnere the salt was used than where
it was not used.
I know from actual tests and ob
servations made that to a large ex
tent salt prevents grain from rust
ing. I think the benefit in this direc
tion has been fully equal to the cost
of the salt. At the price you now
charge for it I think I shall use more
than ever before.
1 have used salt upon my whpat
crop with substantially the same re
sults as those given above on oats.
I have raised fairly good crops of
oats on worn-out land by free use of
salt where the same land without
either salt or manure would produce
hardly enough crop to pay for har
vesting. Yours truly,
Frank R. Locke.
rtp -y
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Mr. T. C. Brink.
A SCRAP OF PAPER
An Angel in Disguise.
PHYSICIANS
'4
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Cured by
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21 TnoMrsoi St., Poughkeepsie, N. 1".
Du. David Kennedy :
My 1eak Sik For twenty years I had
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Last fall it seemed to prow worse. Icon
mltul my physician nnd he pronounced
it Catarrh of the Bladder and gave me
medicine to use. 1 followed his directions
for a lone: while, but saw no improve
ment ; nil this while I had spcllsof TER
11IBLE SUFFERING. One day while I
was using nif physician's medicine I
was passing aVng Main SI., this city, and
my rw-ff-UiwyH a piece of paper lying on
lite sidewalk. 4 picked it, up and it w;is a
part of I)R. Ki;'NKIV"S FAVORITE
It KM ED Y ADVERTISEMENT; some
thing said to me that's the medicine you
want. I went right to a drug store and
bought it ; the Ministering Angel in tne
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right, it was the MEDICIXEl had been
loiiirinir for for years, and before I had
used the fourth bottle I was CURED
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and I wish yon to have ray testimony of
what FAVORITE REMEDY can do.
Most respectfully yours,
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Suitable for babbitting
machinery
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
At 15 cents per pound.
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Feet Cut.
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und
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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil.
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is the Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend.
Castoria.
" Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its
good effect upon their children."
Do. G. C. Osgood,
Lowell, Mass.
" Castoria Is the best remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant whenmothers will eonsiderthe real
Interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of tlievariousquacknostrumswhicharo
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves."
Dr. J. F. KiN-cnELOE,
Conway, Ark.
The Centaur Company, 77 M
Union Mutual Fire
MONTPELIER, VERMONT.
Stock and Mutual Insurance written at current rates.
Losses promptly and equitably settled.
IX. XVI. TAcFARLAND, Agent,
IXyde Park, Vt.
LADIES' AND GENT'S
Light Weight Underwear,
Ladies' Shirt Waists, Gent's
summer Hosiery, Gent's Neckwear, Ladies' kid and
fabric Gloves, Gent's and Boys' summer Hats
and summer Clothing, are now on the
docket, and when in search of the very best
possible thing in return for the money you invest, visit
W.
X3ric2s Elcclr,
Optical Institute!
AT WOLCOTT, VT.,
Dr. T. P.
PROPRIETOR
To 2fy Patrons in Lamoille
I desire to call
fact : Cases requiring the attention of
an oculist, or one giving special attention
to the anomalies of vision, cannot have the
best attention either by myself or any
other, by calling at hotel parlors. Hence
I have prepared a place, fitted with all
modern appliances, instruments, charts,
rooms, &c, and can give as perfect guar
antee of success as can be had in our large
cities. I trust, therefore, my patrons and
the public generally, will not deem it un
wise in me in thus providing this place and
giving all my time at my Institute, and
personal attention to each case. Perfect
satisfaction is guaranteed.
Pricos are reasonable. GooeL3 are the tost made. Lenses
and fram.03 manufactured to order by the largest optical
manufacturing house in the world. .
Dr. T. P. Hubbell, Proprietor.
KELLOGG OIL, PAINT & VARNISH CO.
Beady Mixed Paints
For Inside or Outside Work.
32 Shades, also Black and White.
We sell Floor and Carriage colors also. This Paint is
intended for all kinds of painting. It produces a beautiful
gloss. It is thoroughly reliable ; is easily applied, and will
cover in a superior manner more surface than any other
Paint made. Prices reasonable. Sold at
E. G, WILSON'S FURNITURE STORE, MORRISVILLE, VT.
CDarble (Xlorksl
IE. IE. FOSTER,
Morrisville, - - Vermont.
Having decided to continue my Marble Business, I shall keep a good stock
on hand at all times, and want it distinctly understood that I will not be un
der! iold by any one, 1 don't care where he cornea from. I am situated so I can
do this business with less expense than
are wanting any good work for a small
CALL AND SEE ME.
IS
Castoria.
" Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me."
IT. A. Ahchkh, M. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T.
" Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their experi
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although we only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it." '
United IIosrrrAi. AMD Disctmsaiiy,
Boston, Mass.
Allen C. Smith, Pres.,
array Street, New York City.
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lt
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XX. HOBIITSOIT,
Morrisville, Vt.
Hiilell
AND MANAGER.
and Adjoining Counties :
your Jittention to this
any other Arm in Vermont, and if you
price,
Cherokee Chief,
Sired by Almont Kn !, record (brollier to ri-lmont 2.17) .r
Almont, by Ah.lallnh 1.1 (sire of (joldmitli M'ii-1 2.14 1. I'.- Iiiiont "
Nutwood 2.18), by llnmbletoniun 10 (hire ofl"Xtcr 2.17!;,iumI 40 otli.-r
inis.au).
Almont n. Hire of Almont Enjrlft 2.27, i t !- hire of W.-nt inotit - ;
Puritan 2.1(5, Funny AYitherspoon 2.1;',', Fi.-dn.ont 2.1 1 VAMin.
and. '11 otherH inside the cluirmed circle, nlno of the dnm of innlow i kj-
2.14, Alnbustcr 2.1.-..I. 15. Ki. lmrdMm 2.1 ft. Sibin Skinner 2.1 . nt litiv
2.1!i, Jliainoiit 2. !',. und 10 others
First dum Columbia, bv Lnndsccr (sire of Khc.live 2.2!4). lv
Knox, sire of Ludv Maud 2.1 8. und 13 others in the list ; second Iaia ly
A'ermont Harnbletonian. Landseer not only sired Khedive 2.2!. tait th
dam of Allison 2.24!. Gen. Kuox, sire of Lady Maud 2.lHj4Meiili'h 2.1 .S.
Camors 2.1J, nnd 13 others inside 2.."J0. Also the damn of Monbars U)
2.1('4, Aubine 2.19)4. Martyr (4) 2.2- .Myriad (.'!) 2.2','. Trapeze (.!)
2.2! and 13 others inside 2.30.
Cherokee Chiek is a natural trotter, has repeatedly shown quarter
in 3." seconds and halves in 1.13 on
kindest disposition, stand lu hands
dark brown, foaled 1881.
Sired bv Cherokee Chipf. wnn flip tuo -
em Vermont Breeder' Association,
field. Cherokee Chief has other colts
Cherokee Chief has the reputation of petting letter colts than nny
horse that has stood in Lamoille fount v for 20 yenrs.
Breed to the horuj that Bires the
reap the harvest.
$15 to Warrant,
note, with the usual return
privilege.
Address T. W. Utton, Morrisville.
THREE IIIQIILY SUES
STALLIONS!
RARE BEN, CARLETON, ALLECTIVE,
RARE
Rare Ben. bv Ben Franklin 2.2!). in the list. He leads all Vermont-bred
sires. Dam by Ilolabird a Kthan Allen, by F.than Allen. Bare Ben has a tliree-year-old
recoid of 2.3;'. 1-12 and after serving 20 mares will po into training for
the purpose of obtaining a better record. Ilia sire is full brother to Adiiison
Lambert, the fastest horse that ever Blood in this county, having recuid of
2.127. ilis book only lacks seven of being full.
C AR1ETON.
Csrlfto is a horse of as lino quality, elejjnnt style and finish as ever stood
ill this section. lie is as well bred as life liest and is bat-Ked clone up by extreme
speed on both sides. Sired by Mambrinu King, "The handsomest hois tu
the world." He has five in the 2.2U list and ten others in the 2 .'to lift. C-arle-ton'8
dam Barbara, produced I'ansy 2 27 1-2, at four ye;irs. Barbara's dam,
Belle of Richmond, by llimuletoniau 10, prolucl Birgen 2213-4 Barbara
was sired by Kentucky 1'rince. lie sired (Juv 2.10 8-4 and live others lt'itr
than ii.L'O and 15 others better than U.:so. HI in all. Clark Chief sireil Kentucky
1'rince. He died when 10 years old, vet sired six in the lift and the dams of
Majolica 2.15, Wilson 2.10 1-4, l'hall'as 2.K1 3 4. Caralloid 2.1U 3-4. Campbells
Electioneer 2 17 1-2 and fifteen others in 2 .'JO or better.
Kentucky 1'rince sired the dams f Lubv 2.20. Saxon 2.221 2, Great Eiist
ern 2.23 1-2. Edgar Wilkes 2.24 1-2. Vol ker 2.24 1-2. Pansy dam of Carleton
2.27 1-2, Milkshake 2..50 and his sons have produced 21 with records from
2 10 1-2 to 2.30. Edwin Forrest sired the dam of Mambrino King and he sired
two in the list and the dams of So So 2.17 1-4, Mambrino Dud ley 2 l'J :t-4and of 12
others in the list. He also sired the grand dams of .Nancy Hanks 2 00. Charles
ton 2.15, Angeline 2.1S 1.4. Mike Wilkes 2 15 3-4 and of 2-'j others in the 2.30
list, also the dam of Adrian Wilkes, sire of Boy Wilkes, .oh 1-4. Mtimbriuo
King's service fee this season is $1000 and that of Kentucky 1'rince, 500.
ALLECTIVE.
Allective is a splendid made colt, 4 years old. rich chestnut. 15.3, weight
1100 pounds. Strong flat wide legs, good style and is a typical Wilkes. Sired
by Allectus. by Alcantara 2.23, Oy George Wilkes 2.22. His dam was by a son
of General Knox, sire of sixteen in 2 30 and better. Ilis sons have produced
44 in the list and his daughters 18, including Monbars, two years old. record
2.10 1-2. Allectus' dam was by Administrator 2.20. She produced Irene
2.23 1-2. Ilis grand dam was the great Jessie 1'epper who produced Alpha
2.23 1-2 and Iona 2 17 1-2 and her son LeGrand produced live in the list and her
daughters have produced Egon 2.18 1-4, Alaska 2.27 1-4, Irene, sister of Al
lectus 2.23 1-4 and Don Wilkes 2 24 3-4.
Alcantara has siml 42 with records from 2.13 1-2 to .30. Alcyone, a full
brother, 25, with records from 2 12 1-2 to 2 2s. Their dam was Alma Mater by
Mamhriiio 1'atclien. .She produreil Alcantara 2.23, Alcvon 2.27. Alicm 2 :io. Al
matir 2 20 1-4 and Abitar 2.22 3 4. Alma Mater and Jestde l'epcr are bot h in the
great Brood Mare list. A moment's thought will satisfy any one that Allective
is a rarely well-bred colt of Wilkes-Knox blood.
t'arleton and Allective have been purchased and brought here to stay, and
good judges speak very highly ot them, lsah as to breeding and as individuals,
and it is expected they will le lit erally patronized. They are both trotters-a
fact that will be demonstrated. The editor of the American Horse Breeder has
personal knowledge of these horses, and in a late issue sas :
Fx-Gov. Genrpe W. Hrmlee of Morrixvtllc. Vt. ownn two itcxxl Uilllon thnt fur tlie humiii
of 1KW will bo Id charge of John I'tton at III. training ouililr. nt MorrUvllla. Itoih ar. young
trotter, that are candiilat". for i.Ho lionr, nml Ix.th arn ture ol an eln ti.m It a lar nmjnr.lt
Carlelon Is a hamlxonie million, riml br Hit) ix aulilul M im' ilno Kinir, that lui alrraily 1 in Ilia
lift, incluilinK Prince Krg-ent (i.lH I S), winm-r l lie Slu.onO purx at Hart nrl in Inn. Anil tli.
dam ot Carlcton is the speril- I'rwlurh'it ilnnvlili r of kriilurkr I'rinro, Hiirlmra, thf ilam of I'an
sy, I'our-year-oM record of4.7 1-4- With this l.nrdinr anil fine In.lin.limllly, t'atlclon It a
('heap h'TSP at !! to Insure. The other s tal Ion Is A Ium-i it . ,on of A I Ictus, tiv Alcantara (1 I'M
by beorge Wllkt-s (4.2i ) The dum of Allective is hy lorn l.anir. son of ,en. knox, sir. ol the
(lain of Monlnrs (-2.I6 1-2 at two years old.) The o.iin of aIIcciuk is l"l:i, br Adminl-tntlor. ami
she is the dum of Irene, (J--J.I 12). and a Irene Is by Alcatittra, Allcrlus is her full brother. He
is a dark chestnut, (lands i5 3 and weighs limi pouiels. The iiIcckI f to de rrndne whether a
horse can trot or not, at this lime of vrur. is lo rule behind lilm Mr. I'tton will be glad lo have
tou sit with him behind Allective. The second dam of Allectus Is .It ssie l'i it. one ol the
lirinhtcs stars in the galaxy of great brood twires. Her blood is valuable, and U.rougu Allcc.Uva
it can be bad at a reasonable fee.
TEH1IS : Carlotcn, $25 to warrant; AIIccUto, $20 to
Warrant ; Two !Iaro3 to Carloton, ownol by sarao person,
$10 to Warrant ; Two 2Iaros to Allectiro, $30 to War
rant. Morkisville, April 4, 1802. QUO. W. XZ23XVDE33.
JOZII7 UTTON Manager.
MALVERH STOCK FARM.
NUTMONT.
S206.
RACE RECORD 2:29 1-4.
Sire of NAVARRO, race record 2 -.302 at 4 years.
Got by NUTBOURN, 1399, sire of CI I EVEN. F, 2:15, and full
brother to NUTWOOD, 2 : 18-. sire of the dam of ARMS'. 2 : ioJ, at
two years. Dam of Nutmont, STRABRO, full sister to STEPHEN (.;,
2:2o, by KNICKERBOCKER, 200; Second dam, SUNBEAM, by
VOLUNTEER, 55. Terms, $40 to warrant. Season closes August I.
HIGHLAND W. 10,052.
Got by ABDALLAII WILKES (sire of SAXON 2:223. son
GEORGE WILKES, 2 :22. Dam by IRONSIDE. 1247, son of ADMIN
STRATOR, 2 : 29; $ ; Second dam by CLI ETON PILOT, 2026. Terms
$25 to warrant.
TATTERSALL 299.
Sire, 1IAMBLETON I AN 10. Dam by DANIEL LAMBERT.
Terms, $10 to warrant.
Remember NUTMONT is the first and only Stallion that ever stood
for service in Lamoille County with a record better than 2 : 30. We have
had Several Candidates for said record but the returns have come in slow.
All Colts bred in Lamoille County within the past ten years that have
attained a record of 2 130 or better, were Sired by Stallions owned at Mal
vern Stock Farm.
All Stake Winners at the Vermont Horse Breeders Mcettings bred in
Lamoille County, were Sired by Stallions owned at Malvern Stock Farm.
All Colt Stakes trotted for at Lamoille County Fairs within the past
ten years, have been won by Colts Sired by Stallions owned at Malvern
Stock Farm.
More Gentlemen's Roadsters sold for f.;oo and over in the past seven
years sired by Stallions owned at Malvern Stock Farm, than all others in
Lamoille County.
We know of no reason why it will be different in the future.
" HIGHLAND W's." Book is fast filling, 34 already booked.
Eor full particulars, extended pedigiccs, terms for keeping, &c
address '
CILVS. It. PANE, Morrisville, Vt,
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second heat in 2.."0, distancing the
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BEN.
CRACK
THE WORLD,