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TABERNACLE PULPIT. !
1ALMAQB PREACHES A MOST
REMARKABLE SERMON "
The 8nb|eet Being "Festlvity""Come,
t All Things Are Now Ready," Luke
14zxvll--The Beautiful Character of
d)nr Lod Jeans Christ.
Booxr, rrL N. Y., Jan. 2d.--The
usual large audience assembled
to-day in the Tabernacle and
listened to a sermon of remarkable
]power and interest by Rev. Dr. Tal-
rouge, the subject being "Festivity."
"The text selected was Luke 14:xvii,
"'ome, for all things are now ready."
It was one of the most exciting
times in Englsh history when Queen
Elizabeth visited Lord Leicester at
Kenilworth castle. The moment of
her arrival was considered so im-
portant that all the clocks of the castle
were stopped so that the hands might
point to that one moment as being the
most significant of all. She wasgreeted
at the gate with floating islands, and
torche, and the thunder of cannon,
and fireworks that set the night ablaze,
and a great burst of music that lifted
the whole sene into perfect enchant-
ment Then she was introduced into a
dining-hall, the luxuries of which
astoflished the world: 400 servants
waited upon the guests: the entertain-
ment cost $5,000 each day. Lord
Leicester made that great supper in
Kenilworth eastle
Cardinal Wolsey etertained the
Prench ambassadors at Hamp-
ton court. The best cooks in
all the land prepared for the
banquet; ,purveyors went out and"
traveled al'[ the ,kingdom over to find
spoils for the table. The time came.
"l?he guests were kept during the day
huntiug in the' king's park, so that
their appetites might be keen, and
then in the evening, to the sound of
the trumpeters, they were introduced
*rite a hall hung with silk and cloth of
gold, and there were tables a-glitter
with imperial plate and laden with the
rare of meats and a-blush with the
,ostliest wine, s. And when the second
course of the feast came it was found
that the articles of food had been fash-
ioned in'to the shape of men, birds and
beasts, 'and groups dancing and joust-
ing parties riding against each other
with lans. Lords and princes and
ambassadors, out of cups filled to the
brim, drank the health, first of the
king ot England and next of the king
ef France. Cardinal Wolsey prepared
that great supper in Hampton court,
But I have to tell you of a grander
entertainment. My Lord, the King, is
the banqueter. Angels are the cupbear-
ers. All the redeemed are the guests.
The halls of eternal love, frescoed
with light, and paved with joy, aud
urtalned with unfading beauty, are
he banqueting place, The harmonies
f eternity are the music. The
chalices of heaven ar the plate: and I
am one of the servants coming out
with bth hands filled with invitations,
scattermg them everywhere, and, oh,
that for yourselves, you might break
the seal of the invitation and read the
-,vords written in red ink of blood by
the tremulous hand of a dying Christ:
",ome now, for all things art; ready."
There have been grand entertain-
ments where was a taking off--the
wine gave out. or the servants were
rebellious, or the light failed; but I
have gone all around about this sub-
jeer and looked at the redemption
which Christ has provided, and I come
here to tell you it is complete, and I
swing open the door of the feast, tell-
ingyon that, "All things are now
ready."
In the first place. I have to announce
that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is
ready. Cardinal Wolsey came into the
feast after the first course; he came in
booted aud spurred, and the guests
arose and cheered inL But Christ
omes in at the very begming of the
feast; aye, he has been waiting eight-
een hundred and nlnety-four years for
his guests. He has been standing on
his manied feet; he has had his sore
hand on his punctured side; or he has
been pressing hm laeerated temples
waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that
he has not been impatient, and that
he has not said, "Shut the door "and let
the laggard stay out;" but he has been
waiting. No banqueter ever waited
for his guests so patiently as
Christ has waited for us. To
prove how willing he is to neceive
s. I gather all the tears that rolled
down his cheeks in sympathy for your
sorrows; I gather all thedrops of blood
that channeled his brow, and his back,
and his hands and feet, in trying to
purchase your redemption; I gather all
the groans that he uttered in midnight
chill, and in mountain hunger, and in
desert loneliness, and twist them into
one cry--bitter, agonizing, overwhelm-
ing. I gather all gae pains that shot
from spear° and spike and cross jolt-
ing into on pangoreless, grind-
ing, excruciating. I!%le ,that one
drop of sweat on his brow,' and under
the gospel glass that drop enlarges
until [ see in it lakes of sorrow and an
ocean of agony. That being standing
before you now, emaciated, and
gashed, and gory, coaxes for ybur love
with a pathos in which every word is
a heartbreak and every sentence a
martyrdom. How can you think he
trifle
hasuerus pupated a feast for 180
days; but this feast is for all eternity.
Lords and princes were invited to that;
you, and I, and all our world are in-
vited to this Christ is ready. You
know hat the banqueters of olden
time used to wrap themselves in robes
prepared for the occasion; so, my Lord
Jesus ath wrapped himself in all that
is beautiful. See how fair he is! His
ey his brow, his "cheek, so radiant
hat the stars hve no gleam and {he
moning no brilliancy compared with
it. His face reflecting all the joys of
heredvemed, his hand having the ore-
nipotent surgery with which he opened,
blind eyes, and straightened crooked
limbs, and hoisted the pillars of heaven,
and swung the twelve gates which
are twelve pearls. There are not
enough cups in heaven to dip up this
ocean of beauty. There are not lad-
ders enough to scale this height of
love. There are not enough cymbals to
clap, or harps to thrum, or trumpets
to peal forth the praises of this one al-
together fair. Oh. thou flower of eter-
mty, thy breath is the perfume of
heaven! Oh, blissful daybreak, let all
people clap their hands in thy radi-
ance! Chorus! Come. men. and saints.
and cherubim, and seraphim, and arch-
angel--all heights, all depths, all im-
mensities, _ Chorus! Roll him through
the heavens in a chariot of universal
acclaim, over bridges of hosannas, un-
der arches of coronation, along by the
great towers chiming with eternal ju-
bilee. Chorus! "Unto him who hath
loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood.to him be glory, world
without end!"
I have a word of five letters, but no
sheet white enough on which to write
it, and no pen good enough on which
to inscribe it. Give me the fairest leaf
from the heavenly recordsgive me the
weneil with which the angel records his
victory--and then, with my hand
strung to supernatural ecstasy, and my
pen dipped in the light of the morning,
I will write it out in capitals of love:
"J-E-S-U-S/' It is this Oe, infinitely
fair, to whom you are invited. Christ
is waiting for you; waiting as a ban-
quoter waits for the delayed guest--
the meats smoking, the beakers brim-
ming, the minstrels with fingers on
the stiff string, waiting for the clash
of the hoofs at the gateway. Waiting
for you as a mother waits for her son
who went off ten years ago. dragging
her bleeding heart along with him.
Waiting! O! give me a comparison in-
tense enough, hotenongh, importunate
enough to express my meaning--some-
thing high as heaven, and deep as hell,
and long as eternity. Not hoping that
you can help me with such a compari-
son I will say: "He is waiting as only
the all-sympathetic Christ can walt
for the coming back of a lost soul."
Bow the knee and kiss the Son,
Come, and welcome, sinner; come.
Again. the Itoly Spirit is ready. Why
is it that so many sermons drop dead--
that Christian songs do not get their
wing under the people that so often
prayer goes no higher than a hunter's
"holloa?" It is because there is a llnk
wanting--the work of the Holy Spirit.
Unless that Spirit give grappling hooks
to a sermon, and lift the prayer, and
waft the song, everything is a dead
failure. That Spirit is willing to come
at our call and lead you to eternal
life, or ready to come with the same
power with which he unhorsed Saul
on the Damascus turnpike, and broke
down Lydia in her fine store, and lifted
the three thousand from midnight into
midnoon at the Pentecost. With that
power the Spirit of God now beats
at the gate ot your soul Have you
not noticed what homely and insigni-
ficant instrumentality the Spirit of
God employs for man's conversion?
There was a man on a Hudson river
boat to whom a tract was offered.
With indignation he tore it up and
threw it overboard. But one frag-
ment lodged on his eoatsleeve, and he
saw on it the word "eternity," and he
found no peace until he was prepared
for that great future. Do you know
what passage it was that caused Mar-
tin Luther to see the truth? "The
just shall live by faith." Do you know
there is one--just one--passage that
brought Aurustine from a life of dis-
sipation? "Put ye on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the
flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof."
It was just one passage that con-
verted * Hedley Vicars, %he great
soldier, to Christ: "The blood of Jesus
Christ cleanseth from all sin." Do you
know that the tIoly Spirit used one
passage of scripture to save Jonathan
Edwards? "Now, unto the king, eter-
nal, immortal, invisible the only wise
God, our Savior. be glory." Oneyear
ago on Thanksgiving day I read for
my text: "O give thanks unto the
Lord, for he is good: for his mercy en-
dureth forever." And there is a young
man in the house to whose heart the
Holy Spirit took that text for his eter-
nal redemption. I might speak of my
own case. I will tellyou I was brought
to the peace of the gospel through the
Syro-Phcenieian woman's cry to Christ:
"Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that
fall from the master's table."
Do you know that the Holy Spirital-
most always uses iusigniflc:nt means?
Eloquent sermons never save anybody;
metaphysical sermons never save any-
body; philosophical sermons never
save anybody. But the minister comes
some Sabbath to his pulpit, worn out
with engagements and the jangling of
a fren.ied door bell ; he has only a text
and two or three ideas, but he says:
"O, Lord, help me. Here are a good
many people I may never meet again.
I have not much to say. Speak thou
through my poor lips;" and before the
service is done there are tearful eyes
and a solemnity like the judgment.
The great French orator, when
the dead kmg lay hefore him,
looked up and cried: "God only
is great;" and the triumph of
his eloquence has been told by
the historians. But I have not heard
that one soul was saved by the ora-
torical flourish. Worldly critics may
think that the early preaching of
Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece.
But Thomas Chalmers says he never
began to preach until he came out of
the sick room. white and emaciated,
and told men the simple story of Jemts.
In the great day of eternity, it will be
found'that the mostsouts have been
brought to Christ. not by the Bossuets,
and Massitlons, and Bourdaloues, but
by humble men who. in the strength
of God, and believing in the eternal
Spirit, invited men to Jesus. There
were wise salves--tlere were excellent
ointments, I suppose, in the time of
Christ, for blind or inflamed eyes.
But Jesus turned his back upon
I them. and put the tip of his
finger to his tongue, and then, with
the spittle that adhered to the finger,
he anointed the eyes of the blind man.
and daylight poured into his blinded
soul. So it is now that the Spirit
of God takes that humble prayer-
meeting talk, which seems to be the
very saliva of Christian influence, and
anoints the eyes of the blind, and
pours the sunlightof pardon and peace
upon the soul. O, my friend. I wish we
eou!d feel it more and more, that if any
good is done it is by the power of
God's omnipotent Spirit. I do not
know what hymn may bring you to
Jesus. I do not know what words of
the scripture lesson I read may save
your soul. Perhaps the Spirit of God
may hurl the very text into your
heart: "Come, for all things are now
ready. ""
Again, the church is ready. Oh
man, if I could take the curtain off
these Christian hearts, I could show
you a great many anxieties for your
redemption. You think that old man
is asleep, because his head isdown and
his eyes are shut. No. he is praying for
your redemption, and hoping that tim
words spoken may strike your heart.
Do you know the air is full
of prayer? Do you know that
prayer is going up from Ful-
ton street prayer-meeting, and from
Friday evening prayer-meeting, and
going up every hour of the day for the
redemption of the people? And if you
should just start toward the door of
the Christian Church. how quickly it
would fly open. Hundreds of people
would say: "Give that man room at
the sacrament. Bring the silver bowl for
his baptism. Give him the right hand of
Christian fellowship. Bring him into
all Christian associations." Oh, you
wanderer on the cold mountains, come
into the warm sheepfold. I let down
the bars and bid you come in. With
the Shepherd's crook I point you the
way. Hundreds of Christian hands
beckon you into the Church of God.
A great many people do not like the
ehureh, and say it is a great mass of
hypocrites; but it is a glorious church
with all its imperfections. Christ
bought it, and hoisted the pillars, and
swung its gates, and lifted its arches.
and curtained it with upholstery crim-
son with crucifixion carnage. Come
into it.
We are a garden walled around
Chosen and made peculiar ground:
A little spot enclosed by grace,
Oat of the world's wild wilderness.
Again, the angels of God are ready.
A great many Christians thinkthat the
talk about angels is fanciful. You say
it is a very good subjeet for theologi-
cal students who have just begun to
sermonize: but for older men it is im-
proper. There is no more proof iu
that Bible thatthere is a God thsn
that there are angels Why, do not
they swarm about Jacob's ladder? Are
we not told that they conducted Laza-
rusupward? that they stand before
the throne, their faces covered up with
their Wing, while they cry: "Holy,
holy, is the Lord God Almighty!" Did
not David see thousands and thou-
sands? Did not one angel slay one
hundred and eighty-five thousand men
in Sennacherib's army? And shall
they not be the chief harvesrs at the
judgment?
There is a line of loving, holy,
mighty angels reaching to heaven. [
suppose they reach from here to the
very gate. and whe an audience is
assembled for Christian worship, the
air is full of them. If each one of you
have a guardian angel, how many
celestials there are here. They crowd
the place, they hover, they flit about,
they rejoice. Look. that spirit is just
come from the throne. A momentago
it stood before Christ and heard the
doxology of the glorified. Look!
Bright immortal, what news from the
golden city! Speak, spirit blest! The
response comes melting on the air:
"Come, for all things are now ready!"
Angels ready to bear the tidings,
angels ready to drop the benediction,
angels ready to kindle the joy. They
have stood in glory--they know all
about it. They have felt the joy that is
felt where there are no tears
and no graves: immortal health
but no invalidism; songs, but
no groans: wedding bells, but no
funeral torches--eyes that never weep
--hands that never blister--heads that
never faint--hearts that never break--
friendships that are never weakened.
Again, your kindred in glory are all
readhr for your coming. I pronounce
modern spiritualism a fraud and a
sham. If John Milton and George
Whitefield have no better business
than to crawl under a table and rattle
the leaves, they had better stay at
home in glory. While I believe that
modern spiritualism is bad, because
of its mental and domestic ravwges,
common seise, enlightened by
the Word of God, teaches us
that our friends in glory sympathize
with our redemption. This Bible says
plainly there i joy in heaven among
the angels of God over one sinner that
repenteth; and if angels rejoice and
know of it, shall not our friends, stand-
ing among them, know it? Some of
these spirits in glory toiled for your
redemption. When they came to die,
their chief grief was that you were nol
a Christian. They said: "Meet me in
heaven," and put their hand out from
the cover and said: "Good-by." Now,
suppose you should cross over from a
sinful life to a holv llfe. Suppose you
should he born into the kingdom. Sup-
pose you should now say: "Farewell,
O deceitful worldI Get thee gone my
sin! Fie upon all the follies! OChrist
help me or I perish! I take thy prom-
ise. l believe thy word. I enter thy
service." Suppose you should say and
do this? Why, the angel sent to you
would shout upward: "He is comiug!"
and the angel, poising higher in the
air, would shout it upward: "He is
coming;" and it would run all up the
line of light, from wing to wing, and
from trumpet to trumpet, until it
reached the gate; and then it would
flash to "the house of many mansions,"
and it would find out your kindred
there, and before your tears of repent-
ance had been wiped from the cheek,
and before you had finished your first
prayer, your kindred in glory would
know of it, and another heaven would
be added to their joy, and they would
cry: "My prayers are answered:
another loved one saved. Give me a
harp with which to strike the joy.
Saved! saved! saved!"
If I have shown you that "all things
are ready," that Christ is ready, that
the Holy Spirit is ready, that the
church is ready, tlmt the angels in
glory are ready, that your glorified
kindred are ready, then with all
the concentrated emphasis of my
soul, I ask you if you are ready? You
see my subject throws the whole re-
sponsibility upon yourself. If you do
not get in to the King's banquet, it is
because you do not accept the invita-
tion. You have the most importunate
invitation. Two arms stretched down
from the cross, soaked in blood from
elbow to finger-tip; two lips quvermg
m mortal anguish: two eyes beaming
with infinite love. saying: "Come.come,
for all things are now ready."
I told you that when the queen came
to Kenilworth castle, they stopped all
the clocks, that the finger of time
might be pointed to that happy moment
of her arrival. Oh!. if the King would
come to the castle of your soul, you
might well afford t() stop all the
clocks, that the hands might forever
point to this moment as the one most
bright, most blessed, most tremendous.
Now, I wish I could go around from
circle to circle and invite every one of
you, aceordinr to the invitation of my
text, saying: "Come!" I would liketo
take every one of you by the hand,
andsay: "Come!" Old man. who hast
been wandering sixty or seventy years,
thy sun almost gone down, through the
dust of the evening stretch out your
withered hand to Christ. He will not
cast thee off. old man. Oh! that one
tear of repentance might trickle down
thy wrinkled cheek. After Christ has
fed thee all thy life long, do you not
think you can afford to speak one
word in his nraise?
Come. those of you who are farthest
away from God. Drnnkard! Christ
can put out the fire of thy thirst. He
can break that shackle. He can re-
store thy blasted home. Go to Jesus.
Libertine! Christ saw thee where thou
wert last night. He knows of thy sin.
Yet, if thou wilt bring thy polluted
soul to him this moment" he will throw
over it the mantle of his pardon and
.love. Mercy for thee. Of thou chief of
sinners. Harlot! thy feet foul with
hell, and thy laughter the horror of
the street--oh. Mary Magdalen look
to Jesus. Mercy for thee. poor lost
waif of the street! Self-righteous
man, thou must be born again, or thou
canst not see the kingdom of God.
Do you think you can get into the
feast with those rags? Why, the
King's servant would tear them off
and leave you naked at the gate. You
must be born again. The day is far
spent. The cliffs begin to slide their
long shadows across the plain. Do you
know the feast has already begun the
feast to which you were invited--and
the King sits with his guests, and the
servant stands with his hand on the
door of the banqueting room. and he
begins to swing it shut. It is half-
way shut. It is three-fourths shut. It
is only just ajar. Soon it will be shut.
"Come. for all things are now ready."
I Have I missed one mau'? Who has not
felt himself called this hour? Then I
call him now. This is the hour of thy
redemption.
While God invites, how blest the day,
How sweet the Gospel's charming sound
Come sinner, haste, oh. haste away,
While yet a pardoning God is found.
SAYINOS "AND DOINGS.
Strawberries are reported to be iu
bloom at Lexington, Ga.
Jessie Logan of Gilmer county,
West Virginia, l-years of age has
eloped with James Bishop, who is 64.
At the dinner of the Pilgrim mota-
ers in New irork men were admitted
to the gallery to hear the speaking.
The court of appeals of New York
has decided that fishing in the state
on Sunday is unlawful and a punisha-
ble offensa
A London hatter who has been ob-
servant says that men's heads may
grow appreciably up to the time tbeir
owners are 65 years old.
Alfred McAudrews was killed by s
train at Greenville, Pa. This is the
third son of Mr. McAudrews killed ou
i.he railroad within two years.
A London man who made aspectalty
of manufacturiug modern antiquities
has been forced to give up business,
owing to the slim demand for his
special ties.
Mottoes are displayed in some New
York city street cars. Passengers on
a certain line in that city are cheer-
.d during the preseut hard times by
plaeardsreadlng: "]3o not discour-
aged," "Do your best," "Aim high."
A sentence from a review of a new
novel recently printed in the Queen,
an English publication, is suggestive.
It ran: "The tale is a nicely told one,
and no girl who has the rnsDonsibility
of making out suitable library lists
i'or her mother's,ending need feel any
hesitation about including it amongst
tim novels."
Mrs. George Henry Williams o
Portland, Ore., whose husband sat in
the senate, and was attorney general
in President Graht's time, is said to
be the high priestess of a small set of
fanatical religious believers who have
withdrawn entirely from "the world"
o live for forty days at a time ou
crackers and claret exclusively, and
who are prophesying the cud of the
vorl(l.
TISSUe l'uper.
The flimsy paper called tissue
paper was originally made to place
between tissue cloth of gold or silver
to prevent its fraying or tarnishing
wea folded.
John Feuar is the real name of the
young man who was fatally stabbed
in Decatur a few days ago by a tramp
named "Bob." who escaped.
A disastrous wreck occurred on the
lllinois Central, two miles north of
Pana, No lives were lost, but the
damage to the road will exceed $8,000.
The traffic was delayed several hours.
The bank of Galesburg was euchered
out of $3, 0 bv a young man giving his
name as Frank Fuller., By represent-
ing himself as a member of a secret
fraternity Fuller induced a Galesburg
member of the order to identify him
at the bank and indorse a 1New York
York draft for $800.
The three men. Joseph Hardin,
Charles Odwyer, and David Jones. who
last September held up the Illinois
Central passenger train at Centralia,
pleaded guilty in the Circuit court on
two charges against them and were
each sentenced to the penitentiary for
a term of twenty yearn Another in-
dictment against them--assault with
intent to murder will be tried when
they trove served terms for the rob-
bery.
John Hardy of Coleheur,and Richard
Manning of Irondale, were fatally in-
jured at Hammond. Ind., the other
day by the explosion of the tank of an
oil car on the Western Indiana rail-
road. The men were waiting for a
train, and to "kill time." Manning
hfted the cap off the tank while tlardy
threw a lighted match into the open-
ing. Both men were hurled thirty
feet away by the explosion and ter-
ribly burned.
The proposition that the Masonic
fraternity lay the corner stone of the
new courthouse at Monmouth, is cre-
ating great opposition, especially on
the part of members of the United
Presbyterian church, which has nine
congregations and 1.500 members in
the county. Opposition s made on
the ground that no order or sooieiy
should have the privilege of laying
the corner stone of a building paid for
by public taxation.
The adjutant-general has confirmed
the elections of E. Wood tlersch as
captain and William H. Kibler as first
lieutenant of Company B. Fourth In-
fantry: James L. Hawkins as captain,
ttarry M. l,evering as first lieutenant,
and Frederick R. lfenninger as second
lieutenant of Company E, Fifth In-
fantry, I. N. G. The resignation of
('apt. Brad Whitlock. inspector of rifle
practice of the Fifth Infantry, has
been accepted.
The adjutant-general has issued an
order for an election Jan. 29 for cap-
tain of company I, First infantry. The
following elections are confirmed:
Wood Itersch as captain company B,
Fourth infantry; James L. tlawkins as
captain, Harry M. Leveringer as first
lieutenant and Frederick R. Henninger
as second lieutenant company E, Fifth
infantry. The resignation of Brand
Whilock as inspector of rifle practice
of the Fifth infantry is accepted.
In the Sangamon Circuit court the
St. Louis. Chicago & St. Paul railroad
company, tBluff line') through its re-
ceivers. Joseph Dickson and Charles
Kimball and the Atlantic Trust com-
pany filed a bill in which IIenry
O'llara and Royal J. Whitney, respec-
tively ex-president and vice-president
of the railroad, are charged with en-
tering into a conspiracy to defraud the
company out of a tract of land in West
Springfield for which the company
paid $9,500.
A young man by the name of Martin,
hying at Stark. was found in a dying
condition four miles from his home on
the Princeville road. lying by a hedge
fence, ile was carried to his home.
but never recovered consciousness, and
died soon after. A neighbor says he
came to his house in the night some-
what intoxicated, was refused admit.
tance and drove off. and the horse, it
is supposed, ran away and threw him
out, with the above result. The horse
has not yet been found.
The followin named enlisted men
have been honorably discharged from
the service of the state: Robert C.
Gallagher, Company E, First Infantry;
rank H. Fmher. Company K, rst In-
fantry; Frank W. Taylor, Company L,
First Infantry; Bert W. Caldwell. Com-
pany G, Fourth Infantry, and Horace
Wilson, Company H, First Infantry.
Richard E. Tobin of Company H, First
Infantry, and John Smith of Company
G, Fo:rth Infantry, have been dis-
honorably discharged.
Robert Adams, a Chicago negro, was
shot and almost instantly ldlled in
front of his home. Adams was drunk
and creating a disturbance in the
street, when Officers Cummings and
Mullen came along and attempted to
quiet him. He became abusive and,
drawing a razor, slashed Officer Cum-
mings' coat several times. Officer Mul-
len interfered and received a severe
cut in the left hand. Mullendefended
himself with his revolver, and shot
Adams in the left side.
It is learned that a paper is now be-
ing circulated at Quincy asking official
announcement of a meeting of the
Presbyterian congregation as soon as
the rules will allow. At that meeting
the trouble will be discussed and it is
probable that the matter will be de-
cided. If the majority of the conrre-
gallon vote to request the presbytery
to transfer Dr. Black to another pas-
torate, as desired by Miss Cornelia Col-
lins, this will he done. If, on the con-
trary, a majority of the congregation
vote in favor of Black's remaining he
will remaim
Daniel Benton. alias William New-
by, flied his bond iu the United
States district at Springfield, and was
released from custody pending the ver-
dict of the Supreme court His bond
is for $2,500, and was signed by his at-
torneys, E. C. Kramer and G. W.
Johns of Fairfield and E. S. Robinson.
Benton is showing the effects of his in-
carceration in the penitenary. He
has been employed as a gate-keeper,
and his hands are more grimy and his
general appearance considerably more
forlorn than when he sat in the court-
room surrounded hy the Newby fami-
ly and his crowd of witnesses
BLITHESOME BIT|
She--Why have you never
love? He--Oh, well,
any rich girls.
Diner--This soup is cold,
Waiter--Is that so, sir? I
put plenty of pepper in it!
"'Their courtship was
mance, was it not?" "Very.
one of them told the other
Mistress--Bridget, I
to go ut this evening.
do Pathrick, mere; he's
me, men
Sarah--She's worth a
just the righ age for you.
Any girl worth a million is
right age for me.
Seedy Inventor--I've ot
that's worth millions, sir!
--What do you want for
Inventor--Five shillings,
First Messenger Boy, with
I say, what makes you ran
off like dat? Second
pausing in his rapid
workin', see? Dis is
Mrs. Mahouey said she
trouble with her
patrobes. "Patrobes?"
doctor. "Yes, sir. Mike
taken the same way an'
called them Mikerobea
The ister's Bean--So
you're going to be a
papa, eh? And did you
diamond of mine was the
stance as charcoal?
T. S.B. /nd hasn't papa
that? Johnnie--No. He
was paste.
Spoiled Boy--Mrs. Nexbloek
the most spoiled boy in town.
She does. does she? I'd
know you are trained just as
her brats, any day. Let me
next time she passes
Spoiled Boy, delia.
or--Now, don't forget. I
hear me spanking you.
Man's Inhumanity to
The most inhuman outra
would disgrace the says
upon hl own System by
purgatives which convulse his
agonize his intestines and
tom. Many people constantly
the impression that medl
are violent in their action, and
cathartics, are of any avail.
injury to health is wroaght
taken idea. The laxative which
approaches the beneflclent action
is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
nalnless but thorough, and
testlnal canal Instead of
irritating it. The liver and
share in the benign discipline
this comprehensive medicine
fullnfluence is felt throughout
Malarious, rhematic, kidney
complaints succumb to it.
Chollv--Weally,
Now, what would you advise?
think dolls would suit you
100 Reward 8100.
readers of this paper
learn that there is at least o
that science has been
stages, and that is Catarrh.
Cure is the only posttfve cure
medical fraternity. Catarrh
stltutional disease, requires _ -
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia
rnally, acting directly upon the
mucous surfaces of the system,
stroying the" foundation the
giving the patient stren
coustitutlon and assisting nature
work. The prcprlctors have so
in its curative powers, that
Hundred Dollars for any case
cure. Send for lis of
Address, F.J. CIiENEY & CO.,
'Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Chinese soldlers get $I a
have to board themselves.
Claire--Mr. Swablet
llest girl he knows in to
must be a stranger here.
Iuch Made.
Money strlngeney is not the
of hard times, and It takes
money to make a ood deal of
as he folb*winz shows: Mr.
Tower Hill, Appomattox
writes that he was afflicted
tism for several years and
him no relief. Finalb
over with St.
During his illness he had
not expected to live.
to many who think times
can find an easy wa
' ' Money talks, ' ' remarked
man who was rueful]
lot of idle capital;
its sleep, ' '
1,410 BK FOTATOEM P
This astonishing yield was
by Abr. Hahn, of Wisconsin,
zer's potatoes always get
editor of the Rural New
a yield of 7a6 busht;ls ad
per acre from one of
potatoes Above 1,410
:from Salzer's new seedling
fold.
Express, has a
per acre. He offers
$2.50 a barrel,
planter in the world for but I
It You Will Cut This Out
with 6c postage to the John
Seed Co., La Crosse Wis.,
ceive free his mammoth
logue and a paekag
"Get There, Eli
The cook-book recl'
the disappointing
come out right.
Hog Raising in
There are four bi
ball day's haul by
dulng territory,
and Kansas City, are among
packing points in the United
all'of them the usual
rent the same d
actual freight bill. the
is les than that.
hogs can go them
them, pocket his eash
fast passenger ram m
hours, from almost any point
ao matter how distant.
The selling price in
ary 10th) is 5.20 pr. ewe.
occasions within a year it h
$6.00. Once it touched $6.75.
Don't such figures admit
a hundred
"Great Opportunitim
for a copy. It's free. J.
Passenger Agent,
Omaha, Nob.
