Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1894 — Page 12

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THE BURDENS OF LIFE.

AX F.LOQIKM AM) FORCEFI I, SEIU MOS nV TI1K 11 KV. DR. TAL31ACE. II niT Comfort to t1i Weary nml HenTily Lmlrn Rardeim of the Heart nml of the Hody Living Tronlilr. und Dead. SAX FRANCISCO, May 21. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmap is now in this city, whence he will sail next Thursday on the steamer Alameda for Honolulu on his trip around the worM. He preached today to a large and deeply internste 1 audience on the subject of "Heavy Weights." the test being taken from Vsalms lv. 22. "Oast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." David was here nking his own medicine. If anybody had on him heavy weicht?. David had them, and yet out cf his own experience he advises you and me as to the be?t way of petting rid of burdens. This if a world of burden bearing. Purins the past few days tidlrs-s came from across the sea. of a mighty .and good man fallen. A man full of the Holy Ghost was he, his name the synonym for all that is pood and 'kind and gracious and beneficent. Word ; comes to us of a scourge sweeping off hundreds and thousands of people, and there is a burden of sorrow. Sorrow on ' the sea and wovr on the land. Coming into the house cf rraysr there may be no .sign of sadne?s or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a conflict? Where is the soul that has not a struggle? And there is rot a day of all the year when my text is not ploriously appropriate, and there is never an audience assembled on the planet where the text is not gloriously appropriate. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." In tha far eat wells of water are so Infrequent that when a man owns a well he has a pi p rty of very preat 'value, and sometimes battles have been ; fought for the possession of one well of water, but there is one well that every man owns, a dTp well, a perennial well, a well of tears. If a man has not a burden on this shoulder, he has a burden vn the other shoulder. A l'nielioal lieliclon. The day I left hom- to look after my'pelf aid fir myself in the wapon my father sit driving, and he said that day pomething whi-'h has kept with me all my life: "DeWitt. it is always safe to trust :G"d. I have many a time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for tlfteen years, it was no easy thing for me to support a family, but always Jol came to the rescue. I re- " member the time." lie said, "when I didn't know what to do, and I saw a man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and he announced to me that I had been nominated for the most lucrative office In all the gift of the people of the county, and to that office I was elected, and God In that way met all my wants, and I icll you it is always safe to trust him." Oh. my frien Is, what we want is a "practical religion. The religion people have Is so high up you cannot reach it. I had a friend who entered the life of an evangelist. He pave up a lucrative busiiness In Chicago, and he and his wife 'finally came to severe want. lie told me that In the morning at prayers he said: "O Lord, thou knowest we have not a mouthful of fo.d in the house! Help me, help us!" And he started out on the street, and a gentieman met him and said : "I have bn think of you for a good while. You know I am a flour merchant. If you won't be offended. I Fhould like to send yu a barrel of flour." He cast his burden on the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Now, that is the Jcind of religion we want. In the strait of Magellan, I have been told, there is a place where, whichever way a ship captain puts his ship, h finds the wind against him. and there are men who all their lives have been running in the teeth of the wind, and which way to turn they do nt know. Some of them may be in this assemblage, and I address them face to face, not perfunctorily, but ' one brother talks to another ' brother, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he fha'.l sustain thee." Heart llurilen. There are a preat many men who have business burdens. When we sec a man i worried and perplexed and annoyed in business life, we are apt to say, "He tught not to have attempted to carry so -anueh." Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants a ."business, he does not know what will be Its outgrowths, what will be its roots, 'what will be ita, brancnes. There Is 'many a man with keen foresight and ; large business faculty who has been Ilung Into the dust by unforeseen circumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to trust and to what amount of credit, 'what will be the effect of this new invention of machinery, what will be the effect of that loss of crop and a thousand other questions ierplex business men until the hair Is silvered and deep wrinkle are plowed in the cheek, and 'the stocks po up by mountains and po "down by valleys, and they are at their ""wits' ends and stagger like drunken men. Tnerw never has been a time when there have been such rivalries in business as now. It is hardware against hardware, books against books, chandlery against chandlr-ry. imported article against Imported article. A thousand stores In combat with another thousand '.stores. Never such advantage of light. ."Tiever such variety of assortment, never fo much splendor of show window, never 'fo much adroitnessof salesmen, never so 'jriuch acu'eness of advertising, and amid sail these severities of rivalry In business ;how many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Oh, the burJen on the heart! You hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that Is th- commonly accepted Idea. I do not bl!eve a word of 'it. The vast multitude of these business tmen are tolling on for others. To edu-H-ate their children, to put wing of protection over their households, to have something left so when they pass out of this life their v. Ives and children will not have to po to the pjor house that Is the 'way I translate this energy in the street find store, the vast majority of that ;-nergy. Orip, OJouge & Co. it, nut do all !the business. Some of us remember r,whn the Central America was coming "home from California it was wrecked. President Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic captain of that snip and went down with most of the passengers. Some of them got off Into the life-boats, but there was a young man returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand, and as the last boat shoved oft 'Trom the ship that was to go down, that :young man shouted to a comrade In the !loat: "Her?. John, catch this gold. iTThere are $3.000. Take It home to my 1J mother. It will make her comfortable In her last flay"." Grip. Gouge & Co, do not do all the business of the world. Ah. mr friend, do you say that God tloes not care anything about your worldJy business? I tell you God knows more .bout It than you do. He knows all iyour perplexities. He knows what mortijrage 1 about to forecioFe. He knows what note you cannot pay. He knows rwhat unsalable gods you have on your shelves. He knows all your, trials, from ;the day you took hold of the first yardstick down to that nle of th last yard of ribbon, and the 'ioi who helped DatW to he king, and who helped Daniel to be prime minister, and who- helped .Havelock to be a soldier will help you ,to discharge all your dutis. He is going "to see you through. When loss come and you find your property going, Junt take this book and put It down by your ledger and read of the eternal possessions that will oome to you through our

Lord Jesus Christ. And when your business partner betrays you. Just take the insulting letter, put It down on the table, put yy.ir bible beside the Insulting letter and then read of the friendship of Him who "sticketh closer than a brother." A young accountant In Xew York City got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, and yet he could not make his accounts oome out right, and, he toiled at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those

I books that something had been misap propriated, and he knew before God he was honest. The last day came. .He knew if he could not that day make his accounts come out right he would go Into disgrace and :to into banishment from the business establishment. He went over there very early, before there was anybody in the place, and he knelt down at the desk and said: "O Lord, Thou knowest I have tried to be honest, but I cannot mak these things come out right! Help me today help me this morning!" The young man arose, and hardly knowing why he did so opened a book that lay on the desk, and there was a leaf containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, he cast his burden upon the Lord, and th? Ivord sustained him. Young man, do you hear that? Other Crosses. Oh. yes, God has a sympathy with anybody that is in any kind of toil. He knows how heavy is the hM of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder on the wall, he hears the pickax of the miner down in the coal shaft, he know3 how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at masthead, he -fs the factors girl among the spindles and known how her arms ache, he sees fhe sewing woman in tne fourth story and knows how few pence she gets for making a garment, and loud.T than all the din and roar of the city crimes the voire of a sympathetic God. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he sh.ll sustain thee." Then there are a great many who have a weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets a grudge against a man. All his motives are misinterpreted, and all his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtue than some of the honored and applauded he runs only a ga mm raillery and sharp criticism. When a man begins to go down, he has not only the force of natural giavitati-n, "out a hundred hands to help hrm In the f.reeipi-tatlon. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to look at it. It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit and Daniel in the den, and Shadrach in the lire, and ent John the evcngelist to desol.ite Patmos, and Calvin to the castle of persecution, and John Huss to the stake, and Korah after Moses, and Saul after David, and Herod after Christ. He sure if you have anything to do for church or state and you attempt it with all your soul the lightning will strike you. The world always has had a cross between two thieves for the one who comes to save. High and holy enterprise has always been followed by abuse. The most sublime tragedy of se'.f-saerifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by scoff and grimace and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has com? to ridiculous parody, and a-s long as there are virtue and righteousness in the world there will be something for iniquity to grin at. All along the line of the ages and in all lands the cry has been: "Not this man, hut Barabbas. Now Rarabbas was a robber." rw Kind of Inlvrmnllain. And what makes the persecutions of life worse is that they come from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you loaned money or have started in business, or whom you rescued in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all our lives the most acrimonious assault has come from those whoni we have benefited, whom we have helped, and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the universalst church went into a neighborhood for the establishment of a church of his denomination, and he was anxious to fir.d some one of that denomination, and lie was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house: "I understand you are a universalist." "Well," said the man. "I am a universalist, but I have a peculiar kind of universalism." "What is that?" asked the minister. "Well," replied the other, "I have been out in the world, and I have been cheated and slander d and outraged ami abused until I believe in universal damnation!" The great danger is that men will become cynical and given to believe, as Davil was tempted to say. that all men are liars. Oh, my friends, do not let that be thrf effect upon your souls! If you cannot endure a little persecution, how do you think our fathers endured great persecution? Motley, in his "Dutch Republic," tells us of Egmont, the martyr, who, condemned to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on the way to the scaffold, and when they asked him why he did that ho said: "So they will not be detained in their work. I want to be ready." Oh. how littl? we have to endure compared with those who have gone before us! Ill-Treutnient. Now, if you have come across ill treatment, let nie tell you you are in excellent company Christ and Luther and Galilei and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Qulncy and thousands of men and women, the best sjiirits of earth and heaven. Budge not one Inch, though all hell wreak upon you Its vengeance and you be made a target for devils to shoot at. Do you think Christ knew all about persecution? Wa He not hissed at? Was He not struck on the cheek? Was He not pursued all the days of His life. Did they not expectorate ujon Him? Or. to put it in bible language, "They spit upon Him." And cannot he understand what persecution is? "Cast thy burden upon the ljrd, and He shall eustain thee." Then there are others who carry great burdens of physical ailments. When sudden Flckness has come and fierce choleras and malignant fevers take the castles of life by storm, we appeal to God. but in these chronic ailments which wear out the ftrength day after day and week after week and year after year how little resorting to God. for solace! Then people depended uion their tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are completely well! Some of you, by dint of perseverance .uid care, have kept living to this time, but how you have had to war against physical ailments! Antedeluvlans, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds, but he who has gone through the gauntlet of disease in our time and has come to seventy years of age Is a hero worthy of a palm. Einctency of Fnlth. The world seems to be a great hospital, and you run against rheumatisms and consumption? and scrofulas and neuralgias and scores of old diseases baptized by new nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! It takes the color out of the sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit, and the luster out of the night. When the, limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth Is hot, when tha ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard It Is to be patient and cheerful and assiduous "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed by the Fpikes. Is your side painful? His was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving away under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cross. Whllet you are In every possible way to try to reetorft your physical vigor, you are to remember that more soothing . than any

anodyne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic is the prescription of the text, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He will sustain thee." We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say It cannot be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to bef in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make me think that if the age of miracles Is past It is because the faith of miracles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said: "My mother had a dreadful abscess from Which she had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon her. and worse and worse she grew until we called in a few Christian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We recommended her case to God. and the abscess tepran Immediately to be cured. She Is entirely well now and without knife and without any surgery." So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh, ye who are ick. go to Christ! Oh. ye who are worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall surtain thee." The norden of nerenvenient. Another burden some have to carry is the burden of bereavement. Ah, these are the troubles that wear us out! If we lose our property, by additional industry perhaps we may bring back the estranped fortune; If w lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of morais we may achieve again reputation for integrity, but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these trunks of childish toys that will never be used again! Alas, me, for the empty chair and the silence in the halls that will nwer echo again to those familiar footsteps! Alas for the cry of widowhood and, orphanage! What) bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sunken with grief, what hands trembling with bereavement, what Instruments of music shut now because th'-re are no fingers to play on them! Is there no relief for such souls? Aye. let that soul ride into the harbor of my text: The soul that on Jp.us has learned to rep.se T will not, I will not desert to its f.-??. Tnat sduI. though all hell shall endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake. Now the grave is brighter than the ancient tomb where the lights were perpetually kept burning. The scarred feet of Him who was "the resurrection and th life" are on the broken grave hillock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation of another soul come home to glory. Hürden of Sin. Then there are many who carry the burden of sin. Ah, we all carry it until in the appointed way that burden Is lifted. We need no bible to prove that the whole race Is ruined. What a spectacle It would be If we could tear off the mask of human defilement or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the world's transgressions the deception, the fraud, and the rapine, and the murder, and the crime of all centuries! Aye. if 1 could sound the trumpet of resurrection in the soul of the best men in this audi?nce, and all the dead sins of the past should come up. we could not endure the sight. Sin. grim and dire, has put Its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch will never relax unless it be under the heel of Him who came to destroy the works of the devil. Oh. to have a mountain of sin on the soul! Is there no way to have the burden moved? Oh. yes, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." The sinless one came to take the consequences of our sin. And I know He is in earnest. How do I knowit? Hy the streaming temples and the streaming hands as He says. "Come unto me. all ye who are weary and hc?avy laden, and I will give you rest." Why will prodigals live on Swines' husks when the robe, and the ring, and the father's welcome are ready? Why go wandering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are Invited to the gardens of God, the trees of life and the fountains of lhing water? Why be houseless and homeless forever when vou may become the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty?

ThoiiKht She Und It. Two girls have recently come to Bates to board themselves and discuss conic sections and thj ablative absolute. They took rooms where two girls fought it out a year ago. They cook, and they eat there, and they study there, and they don't go out nights, and they don't hang on the front gate with any Adolphus or any George, dear. They just eat to live and live to learn. In the pantry the departed girls left some paraphernalia for their successors. "I'd like some oatmeal," said one of the girls last Wednesday. "There's sorne in the pantry that Minnie and Susie left." .-aid the other. They cooked ar.d they ate it. It went down hard. It d.dn't seem superlatively good. "I I" gasped one of the girls "I don't think this is real good, do you?" "N-o," said the other doubtfully, "but you put lots of milk on it and it goes." It went. Next day they saw the other girls. "We are indebted to you," said they. "We ate some of your oatmeal that you left." "We leave oatmeal? I guess not, slfsy." said they. "We left nothing eatable." "Why, what was it, then?" "What was that?" "Why. that stuff In the brown paper parcel on the second shelf, way back? Quick, what was it?" "That! Why, you never ate that! What? Why. that was bran and sawdust that dear old ma sent us some egg3 in." Two girls looked pale and wan. One said : "I thought bah! I thought it tasted" ooh, ßhiver "awful chippy." The other girl said: "Girls, I've got it!" "Got what?" "Appendicitis," she said. Lewlston Journal. A Georgia Alligator Story. An alligator story which beats the record comes from Karly county. Some negToes were at work in a turpentine farm near Damascus cleaning the trash and straw away from the boxes preparatory to burning off the wcods when they came across an alligator who had crawled out during a warm Fpell to put on his new spring suit, but who was knocked back Into a state of dormacy by a subsequent cold snap. The old fellow was lying there Btlff, hard, motionless and crunty, and the negroes decided that they would make an end of him by burning him up. So they dipped turpentine out of the boxes and covered him over entirely with that Inflammable substance and then heaped pine straw on top of him and then poured more turpentine on that. When the fire began to blaze his alllgatorship suddenly awoke from dresms of Icebergs and hoar frosts Into what he supposed was the land of perennial summer, where the bad "gators go. Nevertheless instinct was stronger than Intellect, and Old Crusty decided that, even though he were In hell, he would split for a pond. He splitted, and through the pine woods he went, leaving a long streak of fire. His rapid flight to the pond gav him the appearance of a gorgeous meteor floating away, leaving behind a tail of flame. A minute later the tall of fire was a mile long the 'gator wa rolling over and under tn the cooling waters of a cypress pond, but the woods were burning up. The festive darkies, who a minute before were waiting and watching In unfeigned glee to see the 'gator barn, were now busy fighting Are. .After a long while they succeeded in putting It out, but ten crops of boxes had been de stroved. Atlanta Constitution,

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

lessox x, sncon qi auteii, fvter.AT10XAL SERIES, JUNE 3. Text of the Lenson, Ex. ill. 1-1 Memory Verses, 13. 14 Golden Text, I Cor. v, 7 Commentary by the Rev. 13. M. Stenrna. 1. "And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying." The command of the Lord to Fharaoh through Mose3 and Aaron to let Israel go received from Paraoh. the reply, "I know not the Lord; neither will I let Israel go" (Ex. v. 2). Consequently plague after plague was sent upon Pharaoh and his people, if perchance he. might learn who Jehovah was. obey His command to let Israel. His first born, go and thus escape the loss of Egypt's first born (Ex. iv. 22. 23). but all was in vain, and the "one plague more" (Ex. xi, 1) had to come before Israel could go free. Today's lesson tells of that dreadful night in Egypt. 2. "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months. Tt shall be the first month of the year to you." It was the seventh month of their civil year which was henceforth to be the first month of the year to them. It was the beginning of their national existence and was associated with redemption by blood. There Is no life to any sinner he has not begun to live until he has bn redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb (t John vl 12). 3. "In the tenth day of this. month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house." At least two suggestions are here. That each one for himself must take a lamb teaches us that each one for himself must receive Christ, and a lamb for a hou3e teaches the Lord's pleasure in saving households. Think of Noah. Rahab, Lydia, the Jailer and their households (Gen. vil. 1; Joshua il, IS; Acts xvi, 15. 34). 4. "And if the household be too littla for the lamb, let him and his neighbors next unto his hous take it according to the number of the souls." There was no reference to the possibility f the lamb being too small for the household. There is never any lack or failure on God's part. Failure is always on man's side, not on God's. 5. "Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male f ir the first year. Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats." See also the burnt offering, peace offering, sin and trespass offerings (Lev. 1. 3; iii, 1; iv, 3; v, 15) every offering had to he without blemish. It was never a question of the offerer's fitness, for he was never fit. but if the offering was fit or without blemish it was accepted for him (Lv. 1. 4). See the antitype and application in I Pet. i, is, V.K and see our acceptance in Eph. i. , 7. (J. "And ye .;hall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall ki'l it in the evening." As C. H. M. .ays, each house was thi? local expression of the whole assembly, so that virtually there was only one assembly and one sacrifice. The lamb being kert four days makes us think of Christ, who was foreordained before the foundation of the world (I Pet. 2'o and was therefore kept four days that is, 4.0IK) years (II Tet. iii, before lie was slain for us. 7. "And they shall lake of the blood and strike it on the two Side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses wher-in they shall eat it." On either side- and overhead, but none underfoot, for the blood must not he tramped on The first ar.d principal thing is to be under the shelttr of the blood; then being safe by the food we are to eat the Lamb, as Jesus Sitid. "He that eateth me, even he shall live by Me" (John vi T.7). The blood speaks of safety, and eating the Lamb is suggestive of lifand fellowship. 8. "And they shall eat the hsh in that night, roast with lire, ar.d unleavened bread, ami with bitter herbs they shall eat it." The fire and the bitter herbs they are suggestive of His sufferings for us and speak to u-: of our privilege of suffering with Him. as in Phil. i. 23. "Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him. but also to suffer for His sake." See also John xvi. 33; Cel. i, 21: 1 Pet. iv. 12, 13 9. "Eat not of it raw. nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire, his head with his legs and with the purtenance thereof." The fierce wrath on account of sin could onlv be illustrated by the fire (Ps. lxxxviii. 7. 16). We are apt to make light of this wrath of God. but the scriptures are very plain and (dear upon it. Consider Gethsemane and Calvary and see what He endured to save us from the wrath to come. See I The.-s. i, 10; John iii. 31; -tv. xiv. 9-11. Head and legs speak to us of inward thought and outward life, all of which in Him was perfect. 10. "And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and that whLh remaLneth of it till the morning ye shall burn with fire." Compare chapter xxiii 18. The lesson seems to be that all fellowship is inseparably linked with the sacrifice. There can be no safety nor life nor communion apart from the blood of the Lamb. 11. "And thus shall ye eat It." The girded loins, the shod feet, the staff in hand, all indicated a readiness for instant departure. They were redeemed, separated, expectant, going home. Our instructions are, "Gird up the- loins of your mind, be sober and hope to the end. for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 12. "For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast." The time of Isreal's redemption and judgment upon her oppressors had come. It is coming again- in greater degree ilian ever and shall so far exceed the deliverance from Egypt that the former shall not come to mind. It wili be the day of the Lord's vengeance and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion (Isa. xxslv, S; lxiii. 4, and see also Jer. xvi, 14. 15; xxiii. 5-8). 13. "And the blood shall be to you fci a token upon the houses where ye are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy ycu when I smite the land of Egypt." The blood being shed and sprinkled upon the door, the firstborn In every such house was safe, and all such were equally safe, regardless of their feelings in the matter. It is easy to fancy some nervous ones who could not believe they were safe and whcould, therefore, hardly taste the lamb because of their anxiety. 14. "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations." It was the Lord's passover to be kept unto Him (vere 27), but it degenerated Into the Jew's passover, with the Lord left out (John xi, 55). Iet us take heed lest the Lord's supper, which is our passover feast, become a mere form, with no longing for His return (I Cor. xi. 2G). Pattt's Latest Honor. Adeltna Patti 1 probably the possessor of more decorations, diplomas, etc., than any other woman living. The latest comes from faraway Argentina, where ehe was recently voted the diploma of "La Socledad de Beneficencla Ileinanos de los Desamparados" of Ruenos Ayres. This honor certainly carries with it enough in the way of verbiage, but the "queen of song" deserves any title that may be bestowed upon her. He Warn Trnthful. "Harold." she muttered, as her head pressed against his stalwart bosom, "Harold, do I not hear the beating of your fond heart?" "Not exactly." said Harold, blushing slightly, "I didn't mean to tell you. but you see I'm temporarily obliged to carry one of those three-dollar watches." Chicago Record.

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Tnr. State Sentinel, which ever aims to keep abreast of the times and to promote the interests of it fubscriber?, has J tu I eompleted an arrangement with the leading watch manufacturers of the country ky which it is enabled to oiler the beet w&tcbes made, to its subscribers only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in the cities and towns have-ta pay ivr their good In "some caes we can seil watches to our subscribers for even lass than dealers have to pay for theni. Every man or woman, young or old, who reads The State Sentinel ought to own a watch. Every oneougbt to have a good watch a watch that will not only keep time, but is handsome and showy. If you take The State Sentinel you can, for a limited time only, cet a first-class, handsome cold watch, with the vorj best Torks manufactured, for much less than poor watches with silver or brass cases are commonly sold for. Our stock of watches will not last always, and after the present stock is exhausted we cannot promiao to fill orders. Tho who orde'r firet, therefore, will be fc'rst served. The American Standard "Watches the best timekeepers in the world are jrraded as seven, eleven and thirteen jeweled, fall (weled and adjite;I. Very few men not one m a thousand carry either an adjusted or even a full-jeweleJ watch. The State Svntinel uses only the celebrated gold-filled cases made by Joseph Fahys, unless distinctly specified In pperial offers. They are the best made, and selected for that reason. His ten-carat caes, called Montauks, are guaranteed for fi:teea f ears. His fourteen-carat filled cases, called Monareh. are U3rapteed for twenty years. Whuu Ida 2d fc.urteju-carat case? arc pokea of they refer to culy Montauks and Monarch. OUR. SPECIAL OFFERS! .,. . . The cuta represent Joseph Fahya celebrated Montau end M on arch cases as above. Cases will be furnished either plain (eripine-turr.edi or beautifully engraved as the subscriber prefers. No. 18, size for gentlemen, are Elgin, Waltbam or New York. Standard moveaaents, and will be put in each cases ta !asrt4i Jsote carefully the descriptions and prices belosr. GENTLEMEN'S MÄTCH6S.

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Ko. 17. Size No. 13. Ko. 17. Fize No. 18 Waltham or Agin morement, seven jewels, beautilully engraved Montauk case, $8. This watch would cost from $23 to &J5 at jewelry stores. The above No. 18. Size No. 13. No. 13. ie No. IS Monarch rase, twenty-one years guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham moremeut (eng:ne-turned),20.25 No. 28. Size No. 18. Np. 28. Size- No. 18 MontauTc c&m (engine turned). New York Standard movement, .leven jewels, $16.25.

" These are the best Watches ever offered for anytMr like thee f gurex Who need ro without a watch when he can get fcraVclasa timekJtp-er in a handeome cate tor $12.25 or $lü.2ö?

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Ho. 8. Size No. 6. No. 8. Pze N- 0 Liberty ßir American) engraved case, oret movement (.Swiss), seven iewels. $12.

No. 21. Slzo No. 6. NO. 21. Size No. C Monarch case, vermicelli border, fancy Elgin movement, seven jewels, $19.50.

The watch will reach yon within a week after you send the order. .... Remember that the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COMPANY guarantees theso watches- tobe precisely as they are represented. We can assure our readers that every watch will ßivo completo and entire satisfaction. It will be both usöful and orn auantai. a thing of beauty and a joy forever. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Q0.

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No. 15. Slzo Wo. 18. No. 16. ize No- IS Waltham or Elcin movement, peve-n jewels, (engineturned) Montauk ou-e, 318- This watch would cost frora Si'S to $35 at jewelry stores. are all Montauk cases and &r guaranteed for T-'C::'VS.J No. 19. Size Ho. 13. No. 19. Size No. IS Monarch rase, fancv landscape engraved, Elia movement, S2I.50. Ko, 5. Siza No. 18. TiOm 5. Size No. lft Liberty (enjrlnetnrned) case, New York Standard moveoect, will wear ton years, $12.25. County State Inclosed find

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ms VT?r V No. 14. Slzo No. 10. fi!o. 14. 'Cize No. 18 Box ca?e, Louhl XIV. btyle, Waltham orFlgin movement teven jewels, $19.75. These watches arc eoid by retail dealers at from iO to 535. fifteen year. - . i v. fJo. 20. Sizo No. 13. No. 20. -ze No. IS Monarch rase, with wido Vermicelli border and engraved center, Waltiiam movement, seven jewels, $23. This is the finest watch we o!ler and i well worth a( cordiup to tho prices charged in jew elry stores. .Tlie cases art warranted for twenty-one yeara. The readers of The Sentinel never had an opportunity to cet first-class watchei at any such prices as the above, and aftet this stock is sold they will probably col soon have 6uch a chance again. This oiler is open only to subscribers t4 The Indiana State Sentinel. One of tbee watches will make a hand. Eome birthday or Christmas present foi your wife, your eiter, your daughter, oi your sweetheart; for your husband, yooi father, your brother or your eon. In order to avoid confusion and mistake the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say: "Sen t watch No. S (or whatevei number is desired) to tho following address." Write the name, town, county and etate vv p'ain"y. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers nee the following coupon, which caa be cut out, filled up and eent to Thk Indiana State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postollicd money order for the amount.

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189 INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.: Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name Post Office

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