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THE STORY OF A SHIP

IT HAD NO PROW OR SAIL OR STEAM

OR HELM.

But Rev. Dr. Talmage Says It Eclipsed All Modern Steamships—An Eloquent Sermon by the Great Divine on tlie Gos

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his oratory is at times magnetic and eloquent, there is one theme with which, whenever he makes it the groundwork of his sermon, Dr. Talmage never fails to communicate to his auditors the enthusiasm be himself feels. That theme is the gospel invitation, and when this afternoon he took for his subject "The Gospel Ship" the great audienco that crowded the Academy was in full sympathy. The text selected was Genesis" vi,"

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"Thou shalt come

into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee. In this day of the steamships Lucania and Majestic and the Paris I will shew you a ship that in some respects eclipsed them all, and which sailed out, an ocean underneath and another ocean falling upon it. Infidel scientists ask us to believe that in the formation of the earth there have been a half dozen deluges, and yet they are not willing to believe the Bible story of one deluge.

In what way the catastrophe came we know not—whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of $ the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe God ordered a great ship built.

It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to bo without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time.

The ship is done. The door is open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the flare of the lightnings, that look down into the waters and throw a ghastliness on the face of tho mountains. How strango it looks! How suffocating the air seems! Tho big drops of rain begin to plash upon the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash! go the rocks in convulsion. Boom! go tho bursting heavens. The inhabitants of the earth, instead of flying to house top and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip its cable there is noplace for men to fly to. See tho ark pitch and tumble in the surf, whilo from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a race and tho carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to tho sea!

A Terrible Storm.

I am no alarmist. When on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply stato a fact not to be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming, compared with which Noah's deluge was but an April shower, and that it is wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears, "Come thou and all thy house into tho ark."

Well, how did Noah and his family come into the ark? Did they climb in at the window, or come .down the roof? No they went through the door. And just so, if we get into the ark of God's mercy, it will be through Christ, the door. The entrance to the ark of old must have been a very large entrance. We know that it was from the fact that there were monster animals in the earlier ages, and in order to get them into the ark, two and two, according to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wido and very high. So the door into tho mercy of God is a large door. We go in, not two and two, but by hundreds, and by thousands and by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may go in, 10,000,000 abreast!

The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ—the pierced side, the wide open side, the heart side—that we enter. Aba, the Roman soldier, thrusting bis spear into the Saviour's side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in! Oh, what a broad gospel to preacli 1 If a man is about to give an entertainment, he issues 200 or •OO invitations, carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God, our father, makes a bafaqUet and goes out to the front door of heaven and stretches out his hands oyer land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and English factory, and American home, cries out, "Come, for all things are now ready!" It is a wide door! The did cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces' are stood up for the doorposts, so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings soatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our king, comes and scatters the jewels of heaven.

Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get into heaven through the crevices of the door. But he was not obliged thus to go in. After having preached the gospel in Surrey chapel, going up toward heaven, th® gatekeeper oried, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man come in I" The dying thief went jp Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went. in., Europe, Asia, Africa,. North, mid South America may yet feo through

this wide door without crowding. Ho! every one—all conditions, all ranks, all people! Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem, but I think it worth carrying all' around the globe and all around the heavens, that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Whosoever will, let him come through the lytge door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said he could move the world Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ is tho lever, and by that power all nations shall yet bo lifted.

The Swinging Door.

Further, it is a door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was "lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens both waj7s. It swings out toward all our woes it swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings in to let us in it swings out to let our ministering ones come out. All are one in Christ—Christians on earth and saints in heaven.

One army of the living God, At liis command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood,

And part are crossing now.

Swing in, O blessed door, until all the earth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory.

But, further, it is a door with fastenings. Tho Bible says of Noah, "The Lord shut him in." A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad. Unless these doors were fastened the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them, and they might as well havo perished outside tho ark as inside the ark. "The Lord shut him in." Oh, the perfect safety of the ark! The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire—deop to deep, storm to storm, darkness to darkness—but once in tho ark all is well. "God shut him in." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. Ho had his thousands to lend. Now he cannot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach,, phaeton, carriage and curricle now he has hard work to get shoes in which to walk. Tho great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hurricane deck the waves struck him. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. "Tho Lord shut him in!" A flood of domestic troubles fell on' him." Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted the winds blew. Tho heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The mountains of joy are buried 15 cubits deep. But, standing by the empty crib and in the desolated nursery and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forever, he cried, "Tho Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. "The Lord shut him in.

All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, tho outrageous profanities, tho misdemeanors of 20 years, reached up their bands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoom, raving like an euroclydon. But, looking out of tho window, he saw his sin sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heaven brought an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward iieaven. "The Lord shut him in!"

The Heavenly House.

The samo door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know that when a man reaches heaven all earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family there he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly. there "the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes." Here he may havo hard work to get a house but in my Father's house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Here there are deathbeds and coffins and graves there no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admittance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe, forever All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the iship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord—"the Lord shut him inl"

Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, so easily swung both ways and with such sure fastenings. No burglar's key can pick that lock. *No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft with leaking hulk and broken helm and unfastened door, but an ark 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the post, might be bowled in.

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Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live and die and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut Others out, and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they beat upon the door, saying:*"

Let me in!

Let me in!' the door did not open. For 120 years they were invited. They expected to come in, but the antediluvians said: "We must: cultivate these fields we must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of oattle we will wait until we get a little older we will enjoy our old farm a little longer." But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fountains of heaven were filling up. The pry Was being placed beneath the foundations of the gaeat deep. The last year

had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash an ocean dropped from the sky and another rolled up from beneath, and God rolled the earth and sky into one wave of universal destruction.

Outside the Ark.

So men now put off going into the ark. They say they will wait 20 years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say: "You cannot expect a man of my attainments and of my position to surrender myself just now. But before the storm comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I know what I am about. Trust me!' After awhile, one night about 12 o'clock, going home, he passes a scaffolding just as a gust of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead, and outside tho ark! Or, riding in tho park, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becoihes unmanageable, and he shouts, "Whoa, whoa!" and takes another twist in the reins and plants his feet against the dashboard and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the avenue that ho flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter courser into tho great future. Dead, and outside the ark! Or somo night he wakes up with a distress that momentarily increases until he shrieks, out with pain. The doctors como in, and they give him 20 drops, but no relief 40 drops, 50 drops, 00 drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read one of the promises. No time to get a singl'girin pardoned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. Tho wife faints. Tho pulses fail. The heart stops. The soul flies. Dead, and outside tho ark!

I have no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark The world laughed to see a man go in and said: "Here is a man starting for, the ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha, going into the ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, have you heard the news? This man is going into the ark!" Under this artillery of scorn the man's good resolution perished.

And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks himself: "What would they say at the store tomorrow morning if I should become a Christian? When I go down to the clubhouse, they will shout, 'Here comes that new Christian. Suppose you will not have anything to do with us now. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your knees, and let us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian, you are!' Is it not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of the kingdom of God? Which of these scorners will help you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of them will be there? In the day of eternity will they bail you out?

An Invitation.

My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Como in through Christ, tho wide door—the door that swings out toward you. Como in, and be saved. Come and be happy. "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." Room in the ark! Room in tho ark!

But do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. It says, "Thou and thy sons and thy wife." You cannot drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive tho pigeons and the doves into the ark, ho would only have scattered them. Some parents are not wise about these things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child's noso and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomel. You cannot drivo your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. The cross was lifted not tQ drive, but to draw. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." As the sun draws up the drops of the morning dew so the sun of righteousness exhales the tears of repentance.

Be sure that you bring your husband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he heard the rain pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outward bound" for heaven. But your companion is unsheltered. You remember the day when the marriago ring was set. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Sickness came, and the finger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stood alone above the child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes, but tho ring dropped not into the often grave. Days of poverty came, and the hand did many a hard day's work, but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lost? Will the iron olang of the sepulcher gate crush it forever? I pray God that you who have been married on earth may be togather in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your earthly home, by the babe's oradle, by all the vows of that day wheji you started life together* 1 beg y^gfcto see to it that you both get into the arfe

For the Whole Family,

Come in, and bring your wife or your husband with yc»u—not by fretting about religion or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consistent life and by a compelling ptayer that shall' bring tho throne of God down into your room. Go home and take up the Bible and read it together, and then kneel down and commend your souls to Him who has watched you all these years, and before yon rise there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel cry tog to angel, "Behold, thoy pray!"

But this does not include all your family. Bring the children, too. God bless the dear children! What would our homes be without them?! We may have done much for theiri. They have done more for- us. What a Salve for a wounded heart there the soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp or flute ever have such musio as there is in a child's "good night?''jFrom our coarse,

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rough life the angels of God are often driven back. But who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around. They who die in infancy go straight into glory, but you are expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all the corridors and windings and heights and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eternity? "Oh," you say, "I mean to see that they have good manners." Very well. "I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby. Very good. "I shall give them an education I shall leave them a fortune. Very well. But is that all? Don't you mean to take them into the ark? Don't you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no heaven?

How to get them in? Go in yourself! If Noah had staid out, do you not supposo that his sons—Sliem, Ham and Japheth—would have staid out? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and tho probability is that your children will reject him.

The Family Altar.

An account was taken of tho religious condition of families in a certain district. In the families of pious parents two-thirds of the children were Christians. In tho families where the parents were ungodly only one-twelfth of tho children were Christians. Which way will you tako your children? Out into tho deluge or into the ark? Have you ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the judgment when God asks, "Where is George or Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Where are those precious souls whoso interests I committed into your hands?"

A dying son said to' his father, "Father, you gave me an education and good manners and everything that tho world ctfald do for me, but, father, you never told me how to die, and now my soul is going out in the darkness.

Oh, ye who have taught your children how to live, have you also taught them how to die? Life here is not so important as the great hereafter. It is not so much tho few furlongs this side of the grave as it is tho unending leagues beyond. O eternity, eternity 1 Thy locks white with the ages, thy voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy arms reaching across all the past and all the future! 0 eternity, eternity!

Go home and erect a family altar. You may break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house into tho ark. Is there one son whom you have given up? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counseling and praying? Give him up? How dare you give him up? Did God ever give you up? While you have a single articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hongkong or Madras, meditating a return to his father's house. Givo him up? Never givo him up! lias God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late.

The Open Door.

In St. Paul's, London, there is a whispering gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at one side of the gallery is heard distinctly at tho opposito side, a great distance off. So every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into tho ark—not to sit down, but to stand in the door and cail until all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japheth? David, where is Absalom? Hannah, where is Samuel?

On one of the lake steamers there were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed oxtremely pc®r. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief and said, "You seem to be vory poor, sir." "Poor, sir, replied tho man, "if there's a poorer man than me a-troublin the world, God pity both of us!" "I will take one of your children and adopt it, if you say so. I think it would be a great relief to you." "A what?" said the pour man. "A relief! Would it be a relief to have the hands chopped off from the body, or tho heart torn from the breast? A relief indeed! God be good to us! What do you mean, sir?" However many children we have, we havo none to give up. Which of our families can we afford to spare out of heaven? Will it be the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will it be that one that wa3 sick some time ago? Will it be the husband? Will it be the wife? No, no! We must have them all in. Let us take the children's hands and start now. Leave not one behind. Come, father come, mother come, son come, daughter come, brother come, sister! Only one step and we are -in. Christ, the door, swings out to admit us. And it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but the voice' of a lovitig and patienc God that addresses ^oti, saving,

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and all thy house, into the ark." And there may the Lord shut us in!-

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Modest Vagrant.

"Excuse & poor xtian out of work. I want a few Wore oOpp&s' to pay for my night's lodging." "How much more do you want?" "Twopence halfpenny." "Here's the money. Now don't you beg anymore." "Much obliged, but, you see, sir, I must go round to the "other gentlemen, else they'll imagine I've grown proud and I wouldn't have that said of me on any aocount.*'—Fliegende Blatter. 1 .I ii 11 1*

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What Colture Is.

$£? These is a mistaken idea that "culture" mearii to paint a little, to sing a little, to dance' a little and to quote passages from late popular books. As a matter of fdofc, dulture means nothing of tho kihd. Cnlturd mealis mastery over self—-politeness, charity fairness, good tempejr, good conduct. Culture is not a thing to^make display of. liis something, ufte'so ntodetitly that people do not,discover all at once that you have it-^Atohison Globe.,

AIDING THE CUBANS

United States Citizens Favor the Insurgents' Cause.

A REPUBLIC TO BE ESTABLISHED.

The Plaiis ^of the New Government Ueing in Philadelphia Florida I^adies Raising a Revolutionary Fund—Details I of the liecont l.attle in Which the Span- I ish Soldiers Were Defeated.

TAMPA, Fla., April 2.—Senor Rivero, editor of Cuba, has received a communication of a strong American club just organized at Atlanta, the members of which promise pecuniary support and if necessary active efforts in aiding the revolution in cuba. Senor Figueredo has a similar letter from Ocala.

The Cuban ladies of Tampa yesterday visited many of the cigar factories so-

liciting subscriptions for a large fair which they soon intend giving, all the proceeds of which are to go to the revolutionary fund.

J. M. Fernandez, the assistant Spanish vice consul, is in receipt of a letter from Colon, in the Mantanzas province, which states that the negroes in many different places on the island, especially Puerto Principe, have made manifestations in favor of the government and avow their readiness to enter the field to

fight for the crown. The letter also states that Macceo is a very brave man, the best the Cubans have, but that he is considered a fanatic. It continues by saying that the better class of people discountenance the revolutionary movement, and that the government will grant no more concessions, but that if it becomes necessary they will send 200,000 troops to the island in the next month to quell the trouble.

An excursion will leave here Wednesday night so that many Cubans can attend a massmeeting to be held at Jacksonville Thursday night.

BATTLE IN THE MOUNTAINS.

The Spaniards Iiost 279 and the Cubans Only 68. JACKSONVILLE,

The Spanish troops landed at Havana last Monday and Tuesday, according to the statement of Mr. Aguirre, and are in poor condition. They are poorly clad, are without shoes and blankets, and many of them are mere boys.

Carlos Aguirre had an encounter with the sou of the chief of police of Havana, in which he sustained a slight wound on the head, and wounded his opponent.

Mr. Aguirre says that the talk of General Sanguilly being a traitor is erroneous. The government, he states, would be glad to have it so, and aro taking every means to give it this appearance.

CUBAN REPUBLIC.

New Form of Government lJeing Mapped Out in I'hifadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, April 2.—A secret conclave of the leaders of the CubanAmericans in this city has been called for tonight. The object of the gathering is a secret, but it has been learned on the best authority that a plan of operation of the new government of Cuba is to be mapped out and the details arranged.

From private advices received here it seems certain that the insurgent leaders now in dilferent parts of Cuba are preparing to concentrate their forces in one place, establish a' republic, declare war and prepare to maintain their rights. The meeting of tonight will discuss this plan, and canvass for the new president and cabinet of the Cuban republic. Marcos Morales, president of the CubanAmerican league in Philadelphia, issued the call for the meeting.

ELECTION IN MICHIGAN.

A Very liiglit Vote Cast and the Kepub1 leans Were Victorious.

DETROIT,

April. 2.—In the election of

a justice of the supreme court and two regents of the university yesterday Michigan Republicans were again easily victorious. The vote was very light throughout the state, not to exceed half the vote of last fall being polled. The latest indications are that Moore, Republican, defeated McGrath, Democrat, the present incumbent, by 25,000. The Republican plurality on governor in 1894 was 106,392. The Republican candidates for regents are elected by about similar pluralities.

Reports from the city and township elections thus far show that the Republicans have held their own for the most part. The voters appeared to be apathetic and the interest of the women in the outcome of the objections of school trustees seems to have been no exception to the rule, as the women's vote as yet shows no increase.

Burrows' Successor.

KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 2.-—From the returns at hand from the Third con-

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district, Lieutenant Governor

ilnes is to succeed Julius C. Burrows in congress. A. M. Todd, who was the candidate of the combined opposition to Milnes, went out of Kalamazoo county with 500 plurality to

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Fla., April 2.—A spe

cial to The Citizen from Key West, says: Carlos Aguirre, who was chief of 70 men at Jaguy, Chico, Colon, and who recently arrived from Havana, accompanied by his brother, George Aguirre, says that at the battle in the mountains near Santiago de Cuba, March 24, when the Cubans were distributed in strong positions, and the Spaniards were formed in one body, trying to ascend, the attacking columns lost 279 killed and wounded, including four officers. The Cubans' loss were 18 killed and about 50 wounded. The Cubans had a very advantageous position in this fight and played havoc with their enemies ranks.

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credit, as against 1,000 for Burrows last fall. Todd's losses in the other counties, however, will give the election to Milnes by probably upward of 2,000.

Refused to Allow tbe Fight.

LITTLE ROCK, April 2.—The McCoyNeedham glove contest did not take place last night as advertised, Governor Clarke having refused to allow th« contest, thrfeatening to arrest all participants, Spectators and all if the "go" was attempted. In Arkansas it is unlawfull to engage in a "prize fight, either with or without gloves." Needham and MoCoy have agreed to meek before the Pastime Athletic dab of Memphis ou April 10.

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G. T. Kfinrlall, Greenfield, J. S.

McCon-

netl, Ciuuherlrtod, Ricliinau & Son,

New

WE HAVE NO AGENTS

but ship from our factoiy at wholesale prices. Ship anywhere for examination pay freight both ways if not satisfactory. 100 styles of

Carriages. 90 styles or Harness. Send 4cts» for 112 page catalogue^ ELKIIAIIT CARRIAGE AS0

HARNESS MFG. CO.,

W. B.

I'rntt, Sec'), Elkhart, lad»

Tic iNftw York Store.

Established 1853.

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

puse Keepers. Hotel Keepers. Evreybotlij.

"JSP

If you want to attend the greatest sale of Linens and Cottons ever held in Indiana, come Here to this great store durin the week beginning

ednesday,

Jan. 2,1895. Greatest values in Linens and Cottons ever offered in the State, A chance of chances.

PETTIS DRY GOODS GO

For past favors, and ask for

the new year a portion of

your patronage. Daring th0

coming year we propose to

keep up the reputation W6

First-class Goods At Low Prices..

We wisfi all our friends

perous New Year.

Jstiiss

IIS®

...

have secured for handling

nothing but

a pros

E. E. THORPE, Warrington, Indr